A. R. George, Babylonian Literary Texts in the Schoyen Collection

By one’s own hand, for one’s own use. Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg, 20-21 February 2020.

The cuneiform manuscript culture dates back to the mid-fourth millennium BCE, cuneiform being the oldest known writing system in the world. The cuneiform script was invented in ancient Mesopotamia, in the south of modern Iraq and intended for writing down Sumerian texts.

Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 2013

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Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science

NABU, 2021

(JAPAN) 41) Miscellaneous notes on the Middle Babylonian documents-Previously, the Middle Babyloniann aklu documents were treated in my dissertation (Murai 2018). My further considerations, remarks less relevant to the main theme of my dissertation, I am including herein. 1)

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CUSAS, 2019

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 Shøyen Collection, that were produced in the training of scribes in Old Babylonian schools. Following on Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen 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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This volume contains editions of literary fragments from the Middle Babylonian period (ca. 1500–1000 BCE) kept in the Hilprecht-Collection in Jena. Presented in full are The Epic of Gulkišar (HS 1885+), a Mythological Narrative on Pa(p)nigara (HS 1886), a Ceremony in the Ekur (HS 1902), and the Games Text (HS 1893), with introductions, transliterations, translations, philological commentaries, hand copies and photographs. All texts are of special interest; The Epic of Gulkišar is a Middle Babylonian copy narrating the heroic deeds of its eponymous Sealand I king against Samsuditana, the last king of the First Dynasty of Babylon, the Mythological Narrative on Pa(p)nigara portrays the otherwise poorly known deity Pa(p)nigara, the Ceremony in the Ekur tells us of an hitherto unknown ceremony carried out at the Ekur temple in Nippur, and the Games Text is unique in the fact that it enumerates a great variety of children’s games set in daily life Babylon.

Aula Orientalis 32 (2014) 179-183, 2014

Literary Old Babylonian (henceforth LOB) is a new experiment in theoretical description of Akkadian, so in this respect LOB stands in the tradition of Reiner 1966 and Buccellati 1996. Sh. Izre'el (= Sh. I.) has written the chapters on the writing system, phonology and morphology, the chapter on the syntax is authored by E. Cohen (= E. C.). 1 The authors promise 'to share their perspectives on the structure of Akkadian with the widest possible audience […] in order to suggest to general linguistic community that an ancient Semitic language has something to contribute to the general study of language no less than any other language, ancient or modern' (p. iii). To make the presentation available to general linguistic readership, the authors supplied quoted texts with either detailed morpheme-by-morpheme or easier-to-process 'syntactic' glosses. Semitists are invited to discover 'a rather unconventional look at Akkadian' (p. iii).