The Interplay of Material, Text, and Iconography in Some of the Oldest “Legal” Documents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Zählmarken, Zeichenträger und Siegelpraxis 11
5. Private Commemorative Inscriptions of the Early Dynastic and Sargonic Periods: Some Considerations 47
6. The Interplay of Material, Text, and Iconography in Some of the Oldest “Legal” Documents 73
7. Object, Images, and Text: Remarks on Two “Intercultural Style” Vessels from Nippur 95
8. Augensteine im 3. und frühen 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr.: Eine Funktionsanalyse 109
9. Observations on Diplomatics, Tablet Layout and Cultural Evolution of the Early Third Millennium: The Archaic Texts from Ur 133
10. Materiality, Writing, and Context in the Inana Temple at Nippur: The Dedicatory Objects from Level VIIB 165
11. Die Paläographie der lexikalischen Texte aus Ebla: Einige erste Betrachtungen 183
12. Materiality and Presence of the Anitta Text in Original and Secondary Context 223
13. Die „Geierstele“ als luhmannsches Medium zur Legitimation des königlichen Herrschaftsanspruchs 241
14. Deconstructing Textuality, Reconstructing Materiality 257
15. From Clay to Stone: Material Practices and Writing in Third Millennium Mesopotamia 277
16. Notes on Contributors 293
17. Index 297