Mittani palaeography
"In Mittani Palaeography, Zenobia Homan analyses cuneiform writing from the Late Bronze Age Mittani state, which was situated in the region between modern Aleppo, Erbil and Diyarbakır. The ancient communication network reveals a story of local scribal tradition blended with regional adaptation...
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| 格式: | Print 圖書 |
| 語言: | English |
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| 出版: |
Leiden Boston
Brill
[2020]
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| In: |
Cuneiform monographs (volume 48)
Year: 2020 |
| 評論: | [Rezension von: Homan, Zenobia, Mittani palaeography] (2023) (De Martino, Stefano)
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| 叢編: | Cuneiform monographs
volume 48 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mitanni
/ 楔形文字文本
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| Further subjects: | B
Mitanni (Ancient kingdom)
History Sources
B Cuneiform inscriptions B 學位論文 B Cuneiform writing |
| Parallel Edition: | 電子
電子 |
| 總結: | "In Mittani Palaeography, Zenobia Homan analyses cuneiform writing from the Late Bronze Age Mittani state, which was situated in the region between modern Aleppo, Erbil and Diyarbakır. The ancient communication network reveals a story of local scribal tradition blended with regional adaptation and international political change, reflecting the ways in which written knowledge travelled within the cuneiform culture of the Middle East. Mittani signs, their forms, and variants, are described and defined in detail utilising a large digital database and discussed in relation to other regional corpora (Assyro-Mittanian, Middle Assyrian, Nuzi and Tigunanum among others). The collected data indicate that Mittanian was comparatively standardised - an innovation for the period - signifying the existence of a centralised system of scribal training"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 9004417230 |