Mittani Palaeography
Series:
Cuneiform Monographs;
48;
Publisher: BRILL
Date of Publication: 19 December 2019
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Product details:
ISBN13: | 9789004417236 |
ISBN10: | 90044172311 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 396 pages |
Size: | 235x155 mm |
Weight: | 774 g |
Language: | English |
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Short description:
In Mittani Palaeography, Zenobia Homan analyses cuneiform writing from Late Bronze Age northern Mesopotamia, reflecting on local scribal traditions, regional adaptation, international political change, and the ways in which written knowledge travelled within the cuneiform culture of the Middle East.
Long description:
In Mittani Palaeography, Zenobia Homan analyses cuneiform writing from the Late Bronze Age Mittani state, which was situated in the region between modern Aleppo, Erbil and Diyarbak?r. The ancient communication network reveals a story of local scribal tradition blended with regional adaptation and international political change, reflecting the ways in which written knowledge travelled within the cuneiform culture of the Middle East.
Mittani signs, their forms, and variants, are described and defined in detail utilising a large digital database and discussed in relation to other regional corpora (Assyro-Mittanian, Middle Assyrian, Nuzi and Tigunanum among others). The collected data indicate that Mittanian was comparatively standardised ? an innovation for the period ? signifying the existence of a centralised system of scribal training.
Mittani signs, their forms, and variants, are described and defined in detail utilising a large digital database and discussed in relation to other regional corpora (Assyro-Mittanian, Middle Assyrian, Nuzi and Tigunanum among others). The collected data indicate that Mittanian was comparatively standardised ? an innovation for the period ? signifying the existence of a centralised system of scribal training.
Table of Contents:
In Mittani Palaeography, Zenobia Homan analyses cuneiform writing from Late Bronze Age northern Mesopotamia, reflecting on local scribal traditions, regional adaptation, international political change, and the ways in which written knowledge travelled within the cuneiform culture of the Middle East.