Scholars and scholarship in late Babylonian Uruk. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christine Proust, John Steele, editors.
• Editors: Proust, Christine; Steele, John
• Contents: Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Scholars, Scholarly Archives and the Practice of Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk; Abstract; 1.1 Historical Context; 1.2 Scholars and Scholarly Archives; 1.3 The 'House of the āšipus'; 1.4 The Rēš Temple; 1.4.1 Excavations at the Site of the Rēš Temple; 1.4.2 Modern Collections of Cuneiform Tablets from the Rēš Temple; 1.4.3 A Reconstruction of the Scholarly Archives of the Rēš Temple; Acknowledgements; References; 2 Cultural Imports and Local Products in the Commentaries from Uruk. The Case of the Gimil-Sîn Family Abstract2.1 The 'Uruk Scholarly School' as Part of the South-Central Babylonian 'Scholarly School'; 2.2 Compilation and Copy; 2.3 Cultural Imports; 2.3.1 Assyria; 2.3.2 Nippur; 2.3.3 Babylon; 2.4 The Gimil-Sîn Scribal Family; 2.4.1 Nos. 1-5: Tablets Copied or Owned by Members of the Rīš-Gula Branch of the Gimil-Sîn Family; 2.4.2 Nos. 6-8: Tablets Copied or Owned by Members of Other Branches of the Gimil-Sîn Family; 2.4.3 Nos. 9-12: Tablets Possibly Written by or Belonging to Members of the Gimil-Sîn Family; Acknowledgements; References 3 A Mathematical Collection Found in the 'House of the āšipus'. The Art of Metrology in Achaemenid UrukAbstract; 3.1 Sources; 3.1.1 Mathematical Tablets Found in Levels IV and III of the 'House of the āšipus'; 3.1.2 The Colophons; 3.2 Metrological Systems; 3.3 The Metrological Tables: The Tradition Revisited; 3.3.1 Text 1 (W 23273 = SpTU 4, 172); 3.3.2 Comparison with Metrological Tablets from Late-Babylonian Nippur; 3.4 The Evaluation of Surfaces: Bridging Different Metrological Systems; 3.4.1 Seed-Surface and Sar-Surface in Text 4 (W 23291 = SpTU 4, 175) 3.4.2 Reed-Surfaces and Other Definitions of Surfaces in Text 5 (W 23291-X)3.4.3 Procedures and Tables; 3.5 The āšipus and Mathematics; Acknowledgements; Appendix 3.1: Translation of Text 1 (W 23273 = SpTU 4, 172); Appendix 3.2: Extracts of Text 4 (W 23291 = SpTU 4, 175); Appendix 3.3: Extracts of Text 5 (W 23291x = BagM 21, 554-557); Appendix 3.4; References; 4 Astronomical Activity in the 'House of the āšipus' in Uruk; Abstract; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Astronomical and Astrological Tablets from the 'House of the āšipus'; 4.3 Astronomical Texts; 4.3.1 Observational Texts; 4.3.2 An Almanac 4.3.3 Texts Concerning Solstices, Equinoxes and Other Astronomical Schemes4.3.4 Synodic Tables; 4.4 Discussion; Acknowledgements; References; 5 Astrological Texts from Late Babylonian Uruk; Abstract; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Enūma Anu Enlil; 5.2.1 A Commentary on Tablet VIII of Enūma Anu Enlil (TU 17); 5.2.2 Commentaries on Enūma Anu Enlil 20 and 56 (SpTU 4, 162 and SpTU 1, 90); 5.3 Other Forms of Astrology; 5.3.1 TU 14, SpTU 2, 43 and the Related Tablet LBAT 1600 from Babylon; 5.3.2 SpTU 4, 159; 5.3.3 SpTU 1, 94; 5.3.4 TU 19 and TU 20; 5.3.5 Other Astrological Tablets; 5.4 Conclusion
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 001.2093; Learning and scholarship -- Iraq -- Erech (Extinct city); Mathematics, Babylonian; Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian; REFERENCE / Questions & Answers; Erech (Extinct city) -- Intellectual life; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030041762
• Related ISBNs: 303004176X; 9783030041755; 3030041751
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed Jan 11, 2019).
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