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A Corpus of Syriac Incantation Bowls
In A Corpus of Syriac Incantation Bowls, Marco Moriggi assembles and reedits forty-nine previously published Syriac incantation bowls, with accompanying introductions, translations, philological notes, photographs and glossaries, as well as an analysis of the scripts with accompanying script charts.
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Fragmente Einer Grossen Sprache: Sumerisch Im Kontext Der Schreiberausbildung Des Kassitenzeitlichen Babylonien
The present work attempts to close a gap in our knowledge of the history of Sumerian between the extensive and well-understood corpus of texts from the late 3rd to early 2nd millennia B.C.E. and the sparsely-attested Sumerian of the 1st millennium BCE. Consulting new textual materials from the Vorderasiatisches Museum of Berlin, this investigation devotes special attention to key linguistic features of Sumerian in this epoch, the contexts and ideological significance of its use, and scribal education in Kassite Babylonia generally. Although it may seem to handle disparate themes at first glance, these topics are in fact linked since scribal education provided the key source for knowledge of Sumerian in a time when there were no longer native Sumerian speakers. The analysis and the comparison with previous and subsequent epochs provided here allow lines of development and regional trends to come into clearer view, but they also show the inherent difficulty in describing Kassite Sumerian as a language and in assessing its quality.
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Writing, law, and kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization—home of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, as well as the great Code of Hammurabi. The Code was only part of a rich juridical culture from 2200–1600 BCE that saw the invention of writing and the development of its relationship to law, among other remarkable firsts. Though ancient history offers inexhaustible riches, Dominique Charpin focuses here on the legal systems of Old Babylonian Mesopotamia and offers considerable insight into how writing and the law evolved together to forge the principles of authority, precedent, and documentation that dominate us to this day. As legal codes throughout the region evolved through advances in cuneiform writing, kings and governments were able to stabilize their control over distant realms and impose a common language—which gave rise to complex social systems overseen by magistrates, judges, and scribes that eventually became the vast empires of history books. Sure to attract any reader with an interest in the ancient Near East, as well as rhetoric, legal history, and classical studies, this book is an innovative account of the intertwined histories of law and language.
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Iranian Scripts for Aramaic Languages: The Origin of the Mandaic Script
The unique cursive script still employed by the Mandaeans of Iraq & Iran, which is unlike any other script found in the modern Middle East, may provide a clue to the obscure origins of their written literature & their emergence as a distinct religious tradition. Comparison with ancient scripts from the regions where the Mandaeans are found today indicates that the Mandaic script is a product of the late Parthian period (& more specifically the second century C.E.) & has its closest affinities with a group of scripts ranging from Anatolia & the Caucasus in the north to Characene & Elymais in the south, all of which appear to derive from or to be heavily influenced by the Parthian chancery script. The association of the Mandaeans with the later Arsacids is corroborated by their own legends & their textual tradition. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document
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The Sargonic Archive of Tell el-Suleimah
An analysis of 47 Sargonic tablets from Tell el-Suleimah, Iraq, published by F. Rasheed (1981) focuses on intertextual connections & is argued to provide a more coherent picture than that of R. Dsharakian (1994), who claims that the documents are records of an institutional structure & various family households. Personal names & placenames contained in the tablets are listed, & eight groups of tablets are outlined with focus on two interrelated texts that specify 80 & 33 individuals respectively. It is concluded that all the documents were recorded by a single institution consisting of one household & that the latter was a regional center of agricultural management & transactions, owning cattle & sustaining more than 100 people; although the main activity of the zone was sheep husbandry, that of the institutional household was the provision of barley at interest. The documents are dated at a time between those of the archives Umma A & Umma B. J. Hitchcock
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