RT Article
T1 Sources at the end of the cuneiform era
JF Studia Orientalia Electronica
VO 11
IS 2
SP 5
OP 29
A1 Alstola, Tero 1987-
A1 Corò, Paola
A1 Da Riva, Rocío 1972-
A1 Fink, Sebastian
A1 Jursa, Michael 1966-
A1 Kottsieper, Ingo 1959-
A1 Lang, Martin
A1 Monroe, M. Willis
A1 Pearce, Laurie E. 1956-
A1 Pirngruber, Reinhard
A1 Ruffing, Kai 1967-
A1 Svärd, Saana 1977-
LA English
PB [publisher not identified]
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1869931513
AB 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.
K1 mesopotamian archives
DO 10.23993/store.129801