Babylon Calendar Treatise: Scholars and Invaders in the Late First Millennium BC

Babylon Calendar Treatise: Scholars and Invaders in the Late First Millennium BC
Frances Reynolds
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Hardback
h246 x 189mm - 480pg
24 Oct 2019 UK
9780199539949
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This volume publishes in full for the first time all known cuneiform manuscripts of an Akkadian calendar treatise composed in Babylon in the Late Babylonian period. Plates present hand-drawn copies of the damaged clay tablets in the British Museum's Babylonian collection and the volume includes a composite edition and manuscript score. A comprehensive contextualizing introduction provides a key overview of topics in Mesopotamian scholarship, the manuscriptsthemselves, and their language and script. A detailed commentary explores how the treatise is unified by the theme of Babylonia's invasion and how it aims to demonstrate the critical importance of thetraditional Esagil temple in Babylon, its rituals, and its local elite for the security of Babylonia and its later imperial rulers.
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ISBN-13: 9780199539949
Published: 24 Oct 2019
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 246mm
Width: 189mm
Pages: 480

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