Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia

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Beskrivning

In this volume, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman investigate how Akkadian speakers learned Sumerian during the Old Babylonian period in areas outside major cities. Despite the fact that it was a dead language at the time, Sumerian was considered a crucial part of scribal training due to its cultural importance. This book provides transliterations and translations of 715 cuneiform scribal school exercise texts from the Jonathan and Jeanette Rosen Ancient Near Eastern Studies Collection at Cornell University. These tablets, consisting mainly of lexical texts, illustrate the process of elementary foreign-language training at scribal schools during the Old Babylonian period. Although the tablets are all without provenance, discrepancies between these texts and those from other sites, such as Nippur and Ur, strongly suggest that the texts published here do not come from a previously studied location. Comparing these tablets with previously published documents, Gadotti and Kleinerman argue that elementary education in Mesopotamia was relatively standardized and that knowledge of cuneiform writing was more widespread than previously assumed.By refining our understanding of education in southern Mesopotamia, this volume elucidates more fully the pedagogical underpinnings of the world’s first curriculum devised to teach a dead language. As a text edition, it will make these important documents accessible to Assyriologists and Sumerologists for future study.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-12-07
Mått:216 x 279 x 22 mm
Vikt:1 066 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:CUSAS
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN:9781646021383

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Alhena Gadotti is Professor of History at Towson University. She is the author of "Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the NetherworldÓ and the Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle and coeditor of Cuneiform Texts in the Carl A. Kroch Library (CUSAS 15), also published by Eisenbrauns.Alexandra Kleinerman is a faculty research associate at Cornell University. She is the coauthor of The Nesbit Tablets, also published by Eisenbrauns.

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“The authors need to be thanked for making available a rich collection of educational texts, which in their majority derive from the basic training of scribes in the Old Babylonian period. The lists of personal names, in particular, form an important corpus of non-Nippur material.”—Klaus Wagensonner Review of Biblical Literature

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsCatalog of Texts1. Introduction2. Historical Background3. The Nippur Curriculum4. The Sumerian Elementary Curriculum Outside Nippur4.1. Ur4.2. Uruk4.3. Sippar4.4. Kish4.5. Susa4.6. Other Sites4.7. The Schøyen Collection4.8. The Cotsen Collection4.9. Discussion5. The Rosen School Tablets5.1. Tablet Typology and Tablet Shape5.1.1. Type I (Multicolumn)5.1.2. Type II (Student-Teacher)5.1.3. Type III (Imgida)5.1.4. Type IV (Lenticular)5.1.5. Prisms5.1.6. Other5.2. The Exercises5.2.1. Sign Exercises5.2.2. Personal Names5.2.2.1. Sumerian Personal Names5.2.2.2. Akkadian Personal Names5.2.2.3. Sumero-Akkadian Personal Names5.2.3. Legal Phrasebooks5.2.4. Thematic Lists5.2.4.1. Ura 1: Trees and Wooden Items5.2.4.2. Ura 2: Crafts5.2.4.3. Ura 3: Animals and Cuts of Meat5.2.4.4. Ura 4: Objects Found in Nature5.2.4.5. Ura 5: Geography5.2.4.6. Ura 6: Food Items5.2.4.7. Other Thematic Texts: ED Word List C5.2.5. Advanced Sign Lists5.2.6. Lists of Human Beings5.2.7. Acrographic Lists5.2.8. Ugu-Mu5.2.9. God Lists5.2.10. Proverbs5.2.11. Literary Text6. Signatures7. Conclusion8. ConventionsTransliterations, Translations, and Remarks1. Sign Exercise Lists2. Sumerian Personal Name Lists3. Akkadian Personal Name Lists4. Mixed Personal Name Lists5. Legal Phrasebooks6. Ura 1: Wooden Items7. Ura 2: Crafts8. Ura 3: Domestic and Wild Animals, Cuts of Meat9. Ura 4: Stones; Plants; Birds; Fish; Textiles10. Ura 5: Geography11. Ura 6: Food Items12. Thematic, Other13. Advanced Sign Lists14. List of Human Beings15. Acrographic Lists16. Ugumu17. God Lists18. Proverbs19. Model Contracts20. Literature21. Undetermined ListsAppendixReferencesPlates