From the workshop of the Mesopotamian scribe : literary and scholarly texts from the old Babylonian period / Jacob Klein, Yitschak Sefati.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, Jacob, 1934- author.

Sefati, Yitzhak, author.

Series:

Publications of the Bar-Ilan University Institute of Assyriology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sumerian language--Texts.

Sumerian language.

Akkadian language--Texts.

Akkadian language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume presents first editions of a variety of cuneiform tablets from the Old Babylonian period belonging to the collection of the late Shlomo Moussaieff. It makes available for the first time three texts representing varying levels of Mesopotamian scribal education. The first is what the authors argue is the most complete copy of the first fifty lines of the standard version of the Sumerian epic Gilgameš and the Bull of Heaven. The second is a hitherto unpublished bilingual (Sumerian-Akkadian) lexical list of unknown provenance, similar to the Proto-Aa syllabary. Each of the 314 entries preserved on this tablet provides a pronunciation gloss, a Sumerian logogram, and an Akkadian translation. A unique feature of this list is that the signs are arranged on the basis of graphic concatenation: each sign contains one of the graphic components of the preceding sign. It also yields a great number of hitherto unknown, synonymous Akkadian translations to the Sumerian logograms. The final chapter contains an edition of two groups of lenticular school tablets, containing thirty-three elementary-level scribal exercises.With this volume, Jacob Klein and Yitschak Sefati preserve and disseminate important artifacts that advance the study of Sumerian literature, Mesopotamian lexicography, and ancient Near Eastern scribal education.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Preface

General Introduction

I. GilgameÍ and the Bull of Heaven

II. An Old Babylonian Bilingual Lexical Text

III. Lenticular School Tablets

Bibliography and Abbreviations

General Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781646020997

1646020995

9781646020973

1646020979

OCLC:

1298513774