Ancient knowledge networks :
Robson, Eleanor,
Ancient knowledge networks : a social geography of cuneiform scholarship in first-millennium Assyria and Babylonia / Eleanor Robson. - 1 online resource.
This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Includes bibliographical references (272-302) and index.
Introduction -- From 'Ashurbanipal's Library' and 'the stream of tradition' to new approaches to cuneiform scholarship -- Trust in Nabu? Assyrian royal attitudes to court scholarship -- The writing-board was at my house: scholarly and textual mobility in seventh-century Assyria -- Grasping the righteous sceptre: Nabu, scholarship, and the kings of Babylonia -- At the gate of Eanna: Babylonian scholarly spaces before and after the early fifth century -- Conclusions: Towards a social geography of cuneiform scholarship
Electronic reproduction.
London :
UCL Press,
2019.
Available in PDF format.
Description based on contents viewed 13 January 2020.
9781787355965 9781787355958 9781787355641 9781787355972 9781787355989
Assyriology--History.
Cuneiform writing--History.
Assyria--Intellectual life.
Babylonia--Intellectual life.
Ancient knowledge networks : a social geography of cuneiform scholarship in first-millennium Assyria and Babylonia / Eleanor Robson. - 1 online resource.
This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Includes bibliographical references (272-302) and index.
Introduction -- From 'Ashurbanipal's Library' and 'the stream of tradition' to new approaches to cuneiform scholarship -- Trust in Nabu? Assyrian royal attitudes to court scholarship -- The writing-board was at my house: scholarly and textual mobility in seventh-century Assyria -- Grasping the righteous sceptre: Nabu, scholarship, and the kings of Babylonia -- At the gate of Eanna: Babylonian scholarly spaces before and after the early fifth century -- Conclusions: Towards a social geography of cuneiform scholarship
Electronic reproduction.
London :
UCL Press,
2019.
Available in PDF format.
Description based on contents viewed 13 January 2020.
9781787355965 9781787355958 9781787355641 9781787355972 9781787355989
Assyriology--History.
Cuneiform writing--History.
Assyria--Intellectual life.
Babylonia--Intellectual life.