| Title | The Reception of Sumerian Literature in the Western Periphery |
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| Contributor | Maurizio Viano (author) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.14277/978-88-6969-076-1 |
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| Landing page | https://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-7543-417-5/ |
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| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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| Copyright | Maurizio Viano |
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| Publisher | Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press |
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| Publication place | Venice, Italy |
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| Published on | 2016-07-08 |
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| Series | - Antiquity Studies vol. 9
- ISSN Print: 2610-9344
- ISSN Digital: 2610-9344
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| ISBN | 978-88-6969-076-1 (PDF) |
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| Short abstract | With written sources dated to the end of the fourth millennium B.C., Sumerian is the most ancient language so far documented and remained the language of education in scribal circles for over three millennia. In the Late Bronze Age, the dissemination of Sumerian literature, which is best known from Old Babylonian sources, reached the Western periphery, i.e. Syria and Anatolia. This book investigates the transmission of Sumerian literary texts to the Western periphery and offers a comprehensive study of Sumerian literature in the Late Bronze Age. |
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| Long abstract | This book investigates the transmission of Sumerian literature to Syria and Anatolia (i.e. the Western periphery) during the Late Bronze Age. Sumerian is the most ancient language so far documented and remained for about three millennia the language of culture in Mesopotamia for its association with scribal education. With the end of the Old Babylonian period, Sumerian literary and lexical texts were disseminated to regions outside Mesopotamia. The volume, however, is not limited to the documentation stemming from peripheral sites but also includes a comprehensive study of contemporary Mesopotamian sources, i.e. Middle Babylonian and Middle Assyrian. Sumerian literature is best known through the Old Babylonian texts, to which countless studies were dedicated, while the subsequent period is poorly known and has been neglected by scholars for the scarcity of sources. Nevertheless, the Late Bronze Age is extremely important for the Sumerian literature because the process of selection and modification of texts that ended up in the first millennium canonization started in this period. Therefore, this book aims at filling a gap in our comprehension of the history of Sumerian literature. The primary objective of this book is the identification of the tradition of texts discovered in the Western periphery in comparison with second and first millennium Mesopotamian sources. The subject has been approached from different perspectives, taking into account philological, cultural, and historical aspects. |
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| Language | Italian (Original) |
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| Keywords | - Sumerian Literature
- Late Bronze Age
- Scribal Education
- Middle Babylonian Period
- Middle Assyrian Period
- Anatolian Cuneiform Texts
- Sumerian Literary Tradition
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