Construction of Identities and Late Mesopotamian Archives as Found in the Fragments of the ‘Graeco-Babyloniaca’
This article focuses on the social reality behind the so-called Graeco-Babyloniaca, a small sample of less than two dozen fragments of clay tablets, mainly inscribed with cuneiform signs on the obverse, with alphabetic Greek signs on the reverse. As possibly one of the last signs of life of the time...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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2023
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Studia Orientalia Electronica
Année: 2023, Volume: 11, Numéro: 2, Pages: 130-137 |
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cuneiform script
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Résumé: | This article focuses on the social reality behind the so-called Graeco-Babyloniaca, a small sample of less than two dozen fragments of clay tablets, mainly inscribed with cuneiform signs on the obverse, with alphabetic Greek signs on the reverse. As possibly one of the last signs of life of the time-honored cuneiform script, in a Janus-faced manner they hint at the long tradition of Babylonian scholarship and learning on the one hand, and at its disappearance via script-obsolescence on the other. Notwithstanding the fact that there are only a few tablets, the aim of this article is to trace the social group behind the textual remains of the Graeco-Babylonian tablets and tablet fragments. |
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ISSN: | 2323-5209 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: Studia Orientalia Electronica
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.23993/store.129810 |