Ancient knowledge networks : a social geography of cuneiform scholarship in first-millennium Assyria and Babylonia - Robson, Eleanor (UCL Press, 2019)
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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Includes bibliographical references (272-302) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Assyriology -- History; Cuneiform writing -- History; Assyria -- Intellectual life; Babylonia -- Intellectual life