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Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture

Karen Radner, Eleanor Robson
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      The cuneiform script, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia, was witness to one of the world's oldest literate cultures. For over three millennia, it was the vehicle of communication from (at its greatest extent) Iran to the Mediterranean, Anatolia to Egypt. The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture examines the Ancient Middle East through the lens of cuneiform writing. The contributors, a mix of scholars from across the disciplines, explore, define, andto some extent look beyond the boundaries of the written word, using Mesopotamia's clay tablets and stone inscriptions not just as 'texts' but also as material artefacts that offer much additional information about their creators, readers, users and owners.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Karen Radner, Eleanor Robson EAN: 9780198856030 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 1588 g HEIGHT: 247 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-02-19 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Middle East / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology WIDTH: 173 cm SPINE:

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      Mesopotamia, Assyro-Babylonian (Akkadian) languages, BCE period – Protohistory, Palaeography, Ancient history, Middle Eastern history, Social and cultural history

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      Karen Radner (PhD Vienna 1997, Habilation Munich 2004) is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich. Her main research interests are in Assyria, especially the period from the 9th to the 7th centuries BC, on whose political, social, economic, legal, and religious history she has published extensively. Her books include editions of Middle and Neo-Assyrian archives and a study on how awareness of man's mortality shaped Mesopotamian culture (Die Macht des Namens: altorientalische Strategien zur Selbsterhaltung, 2005). She directsan AHRC-funded research project on the correspondence between the Assyrian kings and their magnates in the 8th century BC (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sargon).Eleanor Robson is Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History at University College London. Her research focuses on the socio-political contexts of intellectual activity in ancient Mesopotamia and the online edition of cuneiform texts. She is the author of Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History (2008) and director of the AHRC-funded research project, The Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia, 700-200 BC (http://oracc.org/gkab).
      The cuneiform script, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia, was witness to one of the world's oldest literate cultures. For over three millennia, it was the vehicle of communication from (at its greatest extent) Iran to the Mediterranean, Anatolia to Egypt. The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture examines the Ancient Middle East through the lens of cuneiform writing. The contributors, a mix of scholars from across the disciplines, explore, define, andto some extent look beyond the boundaries of the written word, using Mesopotamia's clay tablets and stone inscriptions not just as 'texts' but also as material artefacts that offer much additional information about their creators, readers, users and owners.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Karen Radner, Eleanor Robson EAN: 9780198856030 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 1588 g HEIGHT: 247 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-02-19 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Middle East / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology WIDTH: 173 cm SPINE:

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      Mesopotamia, Assyro-Babylonian (Akkadian) languages, BCE period – Protohistory, Palaeography, Ancient history, Middle Eastern history, Social and cultural history

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      Karen Radner (PhD Vienna 1997, Habilation Munich 2004) is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich. Her main research interests are in Assyria, especially the period from the 9th to the 7th centuries BC, on whose political, social, economic, legal, and religious history she has published extensively. Her books include editions of Middle and Neo-Assyrian archives and a study on how awareness of man's mortality shaped Mesopotamian culture (Die Macht des Namens: altorientalische Strategien zur Selbsterhaltung, 2005). She directsan AHRC-funded research project on the correspondence between the Assyrian kings and their magnates in the 8th century BC (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sargon).Eleanor Robson is Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History at University College London. Her research focuses on the socio-political contexts of intellectual activity in ancient Mesopotamia and the online edition of cuneiform texts. She is the author of Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History (2008) and director of the AHRC-funded research project, The Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia, 700-200 BC (http://oracc.org/gkab).

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