Scribal education in the Sargonic period / / by Nicholas L. Kraus.

• Superior document: Harvard Semitic studies ; Volume 67
• VerfasserIn: Kraus, Nicholas L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Semitic studies ; Volume 67.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Yale University, 2018.

Scribal Education in the Sargonic Period is an in-depth analysis of the process of education for scribes during the period of Sargonic hegemony in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 2335-2150 BCE). The book provides a holistic study of the topic, addressing the technology of writing, the school texts used in e...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• List of Illustrations
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 The Sargonic Period
• 1.2 Previous Research
• 1.3 The Concept of a Curriculum
• 1.4 The Sources
• 2 Writing Technology and Paleography
• 2.1 Tablet Manufacture
• 2.2 The Stylus
• 2.3 Tablet Layout and Organization
• 2.4 Current Research on Sargonic Paleography
• 2.5 Typology of Sargonic Tablets
• 2.6 Contextualizing Paleographic Developments
• 2.7 Tablet Orientation
• 2.8 Summary and Conclusion
• 3 The School Texts
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Elementary Exercises
• 3.3 Mathematics and Metrology
• 3.4 Model Administration
• 3.5 Literature
• 3.6 Traditional Lexical Lists
• 3.7 An Overview of the Curriculum
• 4 Scribal Education in Context
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Archaeological Evidence
• 4.3 The Sargonic E₂-dub-ba-a?
• 4.4 Literacy in the Sargonic Period
• 4.5 The Language of Instruction
• 4.6 Conclusion
• 5 After Akkade
• 5.1 The Transmission of Knowledge
• 5.2 Summary and Conclusions
• Appendix: School Tablets
• Bibliography
• Index.