Bodies of knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia [[electronic resource] ] : the diviners of late Bronze Age Emar and their table collection / / by Matthew Rutz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786730503321
• Autore: Rutz Matthew
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2013
• ISBN: 90-04-24568-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (704 p.)
• Collana: Ancient magic and divination ; ; v. 9
• Disciplina: 133.309394/33
• Soggetti: Assyro-Babylonian literature; Assyro-Babylonian religion; Cuneiform tablets - Syria - Emar (Extinct city); Divination - History - To 1500; Omens - History - To 1500
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Text and Archaeology: Practitioners and Practice, Diviners and Divination -- Chapter Two. Emar on the Euphrates: Archaeology, History, and Society -- Chapter Three. ‘Temple’ M1: Morphology of a Tablet Collection -- Chapter Four. Interpreting the ‘Temple’ M1 Tablet Collection -- Chapter Five. Conclusion -- Key to the Appendices -- Appendix A. Excavated Tablets and Fragments by Find-spot -- Appendix B. Excavated Tablets and Fragments by Genre -- Appendix C. Colophons -- Appendix D. Summary of Epigraphic Data from Emar and ‘Temple’ M1 -- Bibliography -- Emar Fragments: New Identifications -- Concordance and Index of Excavated Emar Texts by Publication Number -- Objects Excavated in Emar -- Looted Tablets from Emar and the Middle Euphrates -- Concordance and Index of Excavated Emar Texts by Excavation Number -- Miscellaneous Ancient Texts Discussed -- Words Discussed -- Proper Nouns Discussed -- Subjects.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Bodies of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia Matthew Rutz explores the relationship between ancient collections of texts, commonly deemed libraries and archives, and the modern interpretation of titles ; like ‘diviner’. By looking at cuneiform tablets as artifacts with archaeological contexts, this work probes the modern analytical categories used to study ancient diviners and investigates the transmission of Babylonian/Assyrian scholarship in Syria. During the Late Bronze Age diviners acted as high-ranking scribes and cultic functionaries in Emar, a town on the Syrian Euphrates (ca. 1375-1175 BCE). This book’s centerpiece is an extensive analytical catalogue of the excavated tablet collection of one family of diviners. Over seventy-five fragments are identified for the first time, along with many proposed joins between fragments.