Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia / / Alexandra Kleinerman, Alhena Gadotti.
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 c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 25 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Catalog
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Historical Background
- 3. The Nippur Curriculum
- 4. The Sumerian Elementary Curriculum Outside Nippur
- 5. The Rosen School Tablets
- 6. Signatures
- 7. Conclusion
- 8. Conventions
- Transliterations, Translations, and Remarks
- 1. Sign Exercise Lists
- 2. Sumerian Personal Name Lists
- 3. Akkadian Personal Name Lists
- 4. Mixed Personal Name Lists
- 5. Legal Phrasebooks
- 6. Ura 1: Wooden Items
- 7. Ura 2: Crafts
- 8. Ura 3: Domestic and Wild Animals, Cuts of Meat
- 9. Ura 4: Stones; Plants; Birds; Fish; Textiles
- 10. Ura 5: Geography
- 11. Ura 6: Food Items
- 12. Thematic, Other
- 13. Advanced Sign Lists
- 14. List of Human Beings
- 15. Acrographic Lists
- 16. Ugumu
- 17. God Lists
- 18. Proverbs
- 19. Model Contracts
- 20. Literature
- 21. Undetermined Lists
- Appendix
- References
- Plates