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This volume assembles scholars working on cuneiform texts from different periods, genres, and areas to examine the range of social, cultural, and historical contexts in which specific types of texts circulated. Using different methodologies and sources of evidence, these articles reconstruct the contexts in which various cuneiform texts circulated, providing a critical framework to determine how they functioned.
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A Land with No Borders: A New Interpretation of the Babylonian “Map of the World”
The Babylonian Map of the World, which is arguably one of the most famous and frequently referenced artifacts from Ancient Mesopotamia, has almost without exception been assumed to present an idealized and highly ideological picture of the cosmos with the city of Babylon occupying its privileged center. While there can be little question that dichotomies such as myth and reality, core and periphery, and past and the present, merge together seamlessly in the Map (and its accompanying texts) to present an idealized image of Babylonia, it will be argued in this paper that focusing on these dichotomies has caused critical aspects of the Map to be overlooked. By examining the Map as a dynamic, as opposed to static image, a new interpretation of the Map will be presented to show how this remarkable artifact connects the Mesopotamian past and present with its real and mythological landscapes in a way that has been previously unexplored.
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Memorization and the Transmission of Sumerian Literary Compositions
Delnero discusses the role of memorization in the transmission of Sumerian literary compositions. It is widely recognized that nearly all preserved copies of Sumerian literary compositions were copied by apprentice scribes as part of their training in the Sumerian language. References to the use of Sumerian literary texts as tools for training scribes, which can be found in nearly every treatment of Sumerian literature published to date, appear as early as the second decade of the twentieth century, when it had become clear that many of the thousands of tablets found during the initial excavations at Nippur contained scribal exercises.
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Scholarship and Inquiry in Early Mesopotamia
Thousands of texts documenting the activities of scribes and scholars that shed light on the social context of scholarship and scientific inquiry survive from the first half of Mesopotamian history (c. 3400
to c. 1600
). Since these texts provide ample evidence that scholarship occupied a central place in Mesopotamian culture and society during the period in question, examining their content is essential to reconstructing what can be known about scientific knowledge and practice in the ancient world. In this chapter some of this evidence will be considered in order to present a modest overview of the social position and intellectual processes of knowledge acquisition and inquiry during the first phase of Mesopotamian history and to address preliminarily some of the many questions that can be asked about scholarship and inquiry in early Mesopotamia.
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Babylon: Myth and Truth, an Exhibit at the Pergamon Museum
The intention was to select artifacts that would bring Babylon back to life and make it comprehensible to a large audience of both specialists and nonspecialists. Since the plan to include artifacts from Iraq could unfortunately not be realized, and the crates of antiquities selected from collections in Syria were withheld at the airport in Aleppo on the day they were to be shipped, most of the artifacts on display are from the large collections of the three museums hosting the exhibition.
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