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Bodies of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia - The Diviners of Late Bronze Age Emar and their Tablet Collection (Hardcover)
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Bodies of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia - The Diviners of Late Bronze Age Emar and their Tablet Collection (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Magic and Divination, 9
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In Bodies of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia Matthew Rutz explores
the relationship between ancient collections of texts, commonly
deemed libraries and archives, and the modern interpretation of
titles like 'diviner'. By looking at cuneiform tablets as artifacts
with archaeological contexts, this work probes the modern
analytical categories used to study ancient diviners and
investigates the transmission of Babylonian/Assyrian scholarship in
Syria. During the Late Bronze Age diviners acted as high-ranking
scribes and cultic functionaries in Emar, a town on the Syrian
Euphrates (ca. 1375-1175 BCE). This book's centerpiece is an
extensive analytical catalogue of the excavated tablet collection
of one family of diviners. Over seventy-five fragments are
identified for the first time, along with many proposed joins
between fragments.
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