
Old Babylonian Texts in the Schoyen Collection, Part Two
School Letters, Model Contracts, and Related Texts
Eisenbrauns (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 1. July 2019
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-1-57506-725-4 (ISBN)
Description
In ancient Mesopotamia, men training to be scribes copied model letters in order to practice writing and familiarize themselves with epistolary forms and expressions. Similarly, model contracts were used to teach them how to draw up agreements for the transactions typical of everyday economic life. This volume makes available a trove of previously unknown tablets and fragments, now housed in the Shoyen Collection, that were produced in the training of scribes in Old Babylonian schools.
Following on Old Babylonian Texts in the Schoyen Collection, Part One: Selected Letters, this volume publishes the contents of sixty-five tablets bearing Akkadian letters used to train scribes and twenty-six prisms and tablets carrying Sumerian legal texts copied in the same context. Each text is presented in transliterated form and in translation, with appropriate commentary and annotations and, at the end of the book, photographs of the cuneiform. The material is made easily navigable by a catalogue, bibliography, and indexes.
This collection of previously unknown documents expands the extant corpus of educational texts, making an essential contribution to the study of the ancient world.
Following on Old Babylonian Texts in the Schoyen Collection, Part One: Selected Letters, this volume publishes the contents of sixty-five tablets bearing Akkadian letters used to train scribes and twenty-six prisms and tablets carrying Sumerian legal texts copied in the same context. Each text is presented in transliterated form and in translation, with appropriate commentary and annotations and, at the end of the book, photographs of the cuneiform. The material is made easily navigable by a catalogue, bibliography, and indexes.
This collection of previously unknown documents expands the extant corpus of educational texts, making an essential contribution to the study of the ancient world.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pennsylvania State University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Illustrations
64 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
1043 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57506-725-4 (9781575067254)
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Persons
Andrew R. George is Professor of Babylonian at the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London.
Gabriella Spada is Instructor of Assyriology in the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Rome.
Gabriella Spada is Instructor of Assyriology in the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Rome.