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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2014
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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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