Format:
XVI, 396 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten, Diagramme
ISBN:
9789004417236
Series Statement:
Cuneiform monographs volume 48
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004417243
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Homan, Zenobia Mittani palaeography Leiden : Brill, 2020 ISBN 9789004417243
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Homan, Zenobia Mittani palaeography Boston : BRILL, 2019 ISBN 9789004417243
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Mitanni
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Keilschrifttext
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Hochschulschrift
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