Secrets in the library: protected knowledge and professional identity in late babylonian Uruk

Injunctions to secrecy in the colophons of scholarly cuneiform tablets offer potential insights into the classification and protection of knowledge in Mesopotamia. However, most models of a body of “secret knowledge” defined by the so-called “Geheimwissen colophons” have found it difficult to accoun...

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Main Author: Stevens, Kathryn 1986- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2014
In: Iraq
Year: 2013, Volume: 75, Pages: 211-253
Further subjects:B Omens
B Scribes
B Astrology
B Writing tablets
B Selenology
B Priests
B Religious rituals
B Incantations
B Ephemerides
B Laments
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