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Band 2 Fragmente einer großen Sprache

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Fragmente einer großen Sprache
Language: German
Published/Copyright: 2016
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Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie

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The present work attempts to close a gap in our knowledge of the history of Sumerian between the extensive and well-understood corpus of texts from the late 3rd to early 2nd millennia B.C.E. and the sparsely-attested Sumerian of the 1st millennium BCE. Consulting new textual materials from the Vorderasiatisches Museum of Berlin, this investigation devotes special attention to key linguistic features of Sumerian in this epoch, the contexts and ideological significance of its use, and scribal education in Kassite Babylonia generally. Although it may seem to handle disparate themes at first glance, these topics are in fact linked since scribal education provided the key source for knowledge of Sumerian in a time when there were no longer native Sumerian speakers. The analysis and the comparison with previous and subsequent epochs provided here allow lines of development and regional trends to come into clearer view, but they also show the inherent difficulty in describing Kassite Sumerian as a language and in assessing its quality.

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Alexa Bartelmus, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.

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"[...] eine sorgfältige Analyse der gefundenen Schultexte, verbunden mit einem Abriss über die Verwendung des Sumerischen in der Kassitenzeit. [...]"
Jan Keetman in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 107 (2017), 359-361

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    Frontmatter

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    Inhalt

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  • F. Anhang
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    F.1 Die Tafeln aus M6 in Babylon

    301
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    F.2 Schülerübungen nach Veldhuis und vergleichbare Texte

    381
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    F.3 Die „Bilingue IV R2 12“

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    Allgemeine Abkürzungen und Sonderzeichen

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    Literaturverzeichnis

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    Verzeichnis der Textnummern

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
September 12, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9781501504068
Hardcover published on:
September 12, 2016
Hardcover ISBN:
9781501512070
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
11
Main content:
260
Illustrations:
50
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504068
eBook ISBN: 9781501504068
Hardcover ISBN: 9781501512070
Keywords for this book
Sumerisch; Kassitenzeit; Schreiberausbildung
Audience(s) for this book
Philologists, historians, all those interested in Ancient Near Eastern history
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