Sources at the End of the Cuneiform Era
The aim of this article is to discuss several groups of sources which are of special interest regarding the question of Mesopotamian identities after 539 bce, towards the end of the use of cuneiform writing. In this late period, several languages and scripts were in use in Mesopotamia; therefore, gr...
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| author | Tero Alstola Paola Corò Rocio Da Riva Sebastian Fink Michael Jursa Ingo Kottsieper Martin Lang M. Willis Monroe Laurie Pearce Reinhard Pirngruber Kai Ruffing Saana Svärd |
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| description | The aim of this article is to discuss several groups of sources which are of special interest regarding the question of Mesopotamian identities after 539 bce, towards the end of the use of cuneiform writing. In this late period, several languages and scripts were in use in Mesopotamia; therefore, groups of Akkadian, Aramaic, Greek, and Sumerian texts are discussed. The scripts used are Aramaic letters, cuneiform, and the Greek alphabet. A scholar who is interested in late Mesopotamian identities needs to take all these documents into account. This article aims at giving a brief overview on available textual material and where to find it. The topics of these texts vary from administrative documents to highly literary texts. The authors discuss Aramaic inscriptions, legal and administrative cuneiform texts, the astronomical diaries, the Seleucid Uruk scholarly texts, the late Babylonian priestly literature, Emesal cult-songs from the Hellenistic period, the Graeco-Babyloniaca (clay tablets containing cuneiform and Greek), and finally Greek inscriptions from Mesopotamia. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0eb5a8eab3d9454c935f92ef23cda4e92023-11-12T07:30:09ZengFinnish Oriental SocietyStudia Orientalia Electronica2323-52092023-05-01112529https://doi.org/10.23993/store.129801Sources at the End of the Cuneiform Era Tero Alstola0Paola Corò1Rocio Da Riva2Sebastian Fink3Michael Jursa4Ingo Kottsieper5Martin Lang6M. Willis Monroe7Laurie Pearce8Reinhard Pirngruber9Kai Ruffing10Saana Svärd11University of HelsinkiCa’ Foscari University of VeniceUniversity of BarcelonaUniversity of InnsbruckUniversity of ViennaWestfalian Wilhelm’s University of Münster / the Academy of Science at GöttingenUniversity of InnsbruckUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of CaliforniaUniversity of ViennaUniversity of KasselUniversity of HelsinkiThe aim of this article is to discuss several groups of sources which are of special interest regarding the question of Mesopotamian identities after 539 bce, towards the end of the use of cuneiform writing. In this late period, several languages and scripts were in use in Mesopotamia; therefore, groups of Akkadian, Aramaic, Greek, and Sumerian texts are discussed. The scripts used are Aramaic letters, cuneiform, and the Greek alphabet. A scholar who is interested in late Mesopotamian identities needs to take all these documents into account. This article aims at giving a brief overview on available textual material and where to find it. The topics of these texts vary from administrative documents to highly literary texts. The authors discuss Aramaic inscriptions, legal and administrative cuneiform texts, the astronomical diaries, the Seleucid Uruk scholarly texts, the late Babylonian priestly literature, Emesal cult-songs from the Hellenistic period, the Graeco-Babyloniaca (clay tablets containing cuneiform and Greek), and finally Greek inscriptions from Mesopotamia.https://journal.fi/store/article/view/129801cuneiform writingmesopotamiamesopotamian archives |
| spellingShingle | Tero Alstola Paola Corò Rocio Da Riva Sebastian Fink Michael Jursa Ingo Kottsieper Martin Lang M. Willis Monroe Laurie Pearce Reinhard Pirngruber Kai Ruffing Saana Svärd Sources at the End of the Cuneiform Era Studia Orientalia Electronica cuneiform writing mesopotamia mesopotamian archives |
| title | Sources at the End of the Cuneiform Era |
| title_full | Sources at the End of the Cuneiform Era |
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| title_short | Sources at the End of the Cuneiform Era |
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| topic | cuneiform writing mesopotamia mesopotamian archives |
| url | https://journal.fi/store/article/view/129801 |
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