the circulation and transmission of cuneiform texts in social space /
edited by Paul Delnero and Jacob Lauinger.
1 online resource.
Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ;
v. 9
"The papers in this volume were first presented in their initial form at a one-day symposium organized by the editors at Johns Hopkins University on November 19, 2013"--Introduction.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Paul Delnero and Jacob Lauinger: Introduction: reassembling the social from texts and contexts -- Textual circulation and performance. Daniel E. Fleming: Emar's entu installation: revising ritual and text together -- Gojko Barjamovic: Contextualizing tradition: magic, literacy and domestic life in Old Assyrian Kanesh -- Paul Delnero: Texts and performance. The materiality and function of the Sumerian liturgical corpus: textual circulation and administrative praxis -- Christopher Woods: Evidence for economic forecasting in the earliest texts from Mesopotamia -- Steven J. Garfinkle: Ur III administrative texts: building blocks of state community -- Michael Kozuh: Policing, planning, and provisos: The function of legal texts in the management of the Eanna Temple's livestock in the first millennium BC. Contents: textual circulation and the mechanics of production -- Sara J. Milstein: The "magic" of Adapa 191 -- Matthew Y. Rutz: The text after the sacrifice: divination reports from Kassite Babylonia -- Christian W. Hess: Songs of clay: materiality and poetics in Early Akkadian epic 251 -- Jacob Lauinger: Neo-Assyrian scribes, Esarhaddon's succession treaty, and the dynamics of textual mass production.
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Circulation and transmission of cuneiform texts in social space
Akkadian language, Texts, Congresses.
Assyro-Babylonian literature-- History and criticism, Congresses.
Sumerian language, Texts, Congresses.
Sumerian literature-- History and criticism, Congresses.
Transmission of texts-- Iraq-- History, Congresses.