Bodies of knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia: the diviners of Late Bronze Age Emar and their tablet collection

In Bodies of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia Matthew Rutz investigates how libraries and archives can be used to study ancient diviners, an approach illustrated using one family's cuneiform tablet collection from Emar on the Syrian Euphrates (ca. 1375-1175 BCE)

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Subtitles:Scholars, texts, and contexts : an archaeological and textual study of the Diviners' Archive from Late Bronze Age Emar, Syria
Main Author: Rutz, Matthew (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden BRILL 2013
In: Ancient magic and divination (9)
Year: 2013
Reviews:[Rezension von: Rutz, Matthew, Bodies of knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia : the diviners of Late Bronze Age Emar and their tablet collection] (2020) (Böck, Barbara)
Series/Journal:Ancient magic and divination 9
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505 8 0 |a Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Divination in Ancient Mesopotamia: Bodies of Knowledge; Communities of Language, Text, and Script in Late Bronze Age Syria; Goals, Scope, and Structure of this Book; Chapter One Text and Archaeology: Practitioners and Practice, Diviners and Divination; Diviners and Divination: Sources and Methods; Identifying Diviners: Names and Titles; The Genres of Divination; Colophons, Education, and Scholarship; Material Culture of Divination: Objects and Representations 
505 8 0 |a Text and Archaeology: Contexts, Artifacts, Archives, and LibrariesCorpus and Method; General Considerations: Terminology and Methodology; Case Study: 'Temple' M1 in Emar; Approaching the Tablet Collection from Emar's 'Temple' M1; Chapter Two Emar on the Euphrates: Archaeology, History, and Society; Historical Sketch of Emar in Ancient Sources; Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Emar and its Archives; Geography and Environment of the Middle Euphrates; Late Bronze Age Syria: An Archaeological Overview; Early Exploration of Eski Meskene (1907-1931); French Excavations at Emar (1970-1976) 
505 8 0 |a Syrian Excavations at Emar (1992-1995)German-Syrian Excavations at Emar (1996-2002); Summary: Architecture, Artifacts, and Chronology; Perspectives on Late Bronze Age Emar and its Archives; Chapter Three 'Temple' M1: Morphology of a Tablet Collection; Discovery and Stratigraphy; Stratum 5; Stratum 4; Stratum 3bis; Stratum 3; Stratum 2; Stratum 1; Collapse; Architecture; Artifacts; Epigraphic Finds; Archaeological Provenience of the Tablet Collection: Excavation Units; Summary: Excavation Units and Architecture; Chapter Four Interpreting the 'Temple' M1 Tablet Collection 
505 8 0 |a Genres Found in the Tablet CollectionAdministrative Records (Appendix B.1); Legal Documents (Appendix B.2); Letters (Appendix B.3); Public Rituals (Appendix B.4); Lexical Texts (Appendix B.5); Divinatory Texts (Appendix B.6); Incantations and Rituals (Appendix B.7); Literary Texts (Appendix B.8); Uncertain Texts and Fragments (Appendix B.9); Archive or Archives?: Dossiers Present in the Tablet Collection; Diviners' Archive and Library; Titles, Names, and the Archaeological Provenience of Each Dossier; Royal Archive?; Temple Archive?; Isolated Dossiers 
505 8 0 |a Elements of the Diviners' Tablet CollectionChapter Five Conclusion; Architecture and Assemblage of 'Temple' M1; Temple, Scriptorium, Public Storage, or House?; The 'Temple' M1 Tablet Collection: Formation, Size, Composition, and Distribution; Perspectives on the Formation and Deposition of Cuneiform Tablet Collections; 'Temple' M1 Archive: Size, Composition, Distribution; Perspectives on Archaeological Provenience and the 'Temple' M1 Tablet Collection; Divination in Emar: Theory and Practice, Tradition and Transmission; Practice and Theory of Divination in Emar; Tradition and Transmission 
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