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UNINA9910809418103321 |
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Titolo |
Texts and contexts : the circulation and transmission of cuneiform texts in social space / / edited by Paul Delnero and Jacob Lauinger |
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Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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1-61451-963-3 |
1-61451-537-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records, , 2161-4415 ; ; Volume 9 |
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Soggetti |
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Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism |
Sumerian literature - History and criticism |
Akkadian language |
Sumerian language |
Transmission of texts - Iraq - History |
Iraq Civilization To 634 Congresses |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"The papers in this volume were first presented in their initial form at a one-day symposium organized by the editors at Johns Hopkins University on November 19, 2013." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Emar’s entu Installation -- 3. Contextualizing Tradition -- 4. Texts and Performance -- 5. Contingency Tables and Economic Forecasting in the Earliest Texts from Mesopotamia -- 6. Ur III Administrative Texts -- 7. Policing, Planning, and Provisos -- 8. The “Magic” of Adapa -- 9. The Text after the Sacrifice -- 10. Songs of Clay -- 11. Neo-Assyrian Scribes, “Esarhaddon’s Succession Treaty,” and the Dynamics of Textual Mass Production |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume assembles scholars working on cuneiform texts from different periods, genres, and areas to examine the range of social, cultural, and historical contexts in which specific types of texts circulated. Using different methodologies and sources of evidence, these articles reconstruct the contexts in which various cuneiform texts circulated, providing a critical framework to determine how they |
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