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Ancient knowledge networks : a social geography of cuneiform scholarship in first-millennium Assyria and Babylonia / Eleanor Robson.

By: Robson, Eleanor [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: UCL Press, Description: 1 online resourceISBN: 9781787355965; 9781787355958; 9781787355641; 9781787355972; 9781787355989Subject(s): Assyriology -- History | Cuneiform writing -- History | Assyria -- Intellectual life | Babylonia -- Intellectual lifeOnline resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
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
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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.

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