The composition and tradition of Erimḫuš
Preface -- The Scope of This Study -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations and Symbols -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 State of Research -- 1.2 Goals and Methods -- 1.3 Arrangement of the Chapters -- 2 The Source Material -- 2.1 Second Millennium Sources -- 2.2 The...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
2021
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Cuneiform monographs (volume 52)
Year: 2021 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Boddy, Kaira, 1988-, The composition and tradition of Erimḫuš] (2023) (Pfitzner, Judith)
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| Series/Journal: | Cuneiform monographs
volume 52 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Akkadian language
B Sumerian language / Hamito-semitic languages B Cuneiform |
| Further subjects: | B
History
B Thesis |
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| Summary: | Preface -- The Scope of This Study -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations and Symbols -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 State of Research -- 1.2 Goals and Methods -- 1.3 Arrangement of the Chapters -- 2 The Source Material -- 2.1 Second Millennium Sources -- 2.2 The First Millennium Series -- 2.3 Erimḫuš in Commentaries and School Texts -- 3 The Surface Structure of Erimḫuš -- 3.1 The Modular Organization of Erimḫuš -- 3.2 Vertical Connections between Entries -- 3.3 Horizontal Connections between Entries -- 3.4 The Sections of Erimḫuš -- 4 Quotations and Other Parallels -- 4.1 Ininšagura -- 4.2 Syllable Vocabulary A -- 4.3 Early Dynastic Officials and Plants -- 4.4 Grammatical Vocabularies -- 4.5 Parallels between Erimḫuš and Other Lexical Lists -- 5 The Different Versions of Erimḫuš -- 5.1 The Middle Babylonian Version(s) of Erimḫuš -- 5.2 A Comparison between the Kassite Excerpt and Erimḫuš 2 -- 5.3 A Comparison between the Middle Assyrian Manuscript and Erimḫuš 3 -- 5.4 A Comparison between the Ḫattuša Version and Erimḫuš 1-2 -- 5.5 Differences between the Second Millennium and First Millennium Versions -- 5.6 Reconstructing the Historical Development of Erimḫuš -- 6 The Composition of Erimḫuš -- 6.1 Quotations in Erimḫuš -- 6.2 Sumerian in Erimḫuš -- 6.3 Akkadian in Erimḫuš -- 7 Erimḫuš and Babylonian Scribal Scholarship -- 7.1 The Lexical Tradition Leading Up to Erimḫuš -- 7.2 Sumerian in the Middle Babylonian Period -- 7.3 The Purpose of Erimḫuš -- 8 The Export and Adaptation of Lexical Lists in the Late Second Millennium -- 8.1 Find-Spots of Lexical Lists Outside of Babylonia -- 8.2 The Reconfiguration of Lexical Material in the Late Second Millennium -- 8.3 The Lexical Corpus from Ḫattuša -- 8.4 A Comparison between Ḫattuša and Contemporary Scribal Centers -- 9 The Hittite Subcolumn -- 9.1 The Hittite Entries -- 9.2 Hittite Reinterpretations -- 9.3 Hittite Linguistic Awareness -- 10 Erimḫuš and Hittite Scribal Heritage -- 10.1 Writing in Ḫattuša -- 10.2 The Use of Mesopotamian Scholarly Works by the Hittites -- 10.3 Hittite Scribal Scholars -- 10.4 The Creation of a Hittite Scribal Heritage -- 11 Conclusions -- 11.1 The Historical Development of Erimḫuš -- 11.2 The Organization of Erimḫuš -- 11.3 The Function of Erimḫuš -- Appendices: The Erimḫuš Manuscripts from Ḫattuša -- Appendix I: KBo 13,1+ Appendix II: KBo 1,35+ Appendix III: KBo 26,21 -- Appendix IV: KBo 26,22 -- Appendix V: KBo 26,23 -- Appendix VI: KBo 1,36+ Appendix VII: KBo 1,41 -- Appendix VIII: KBo 1,50+ Appendix IX: KBo 26,26 -- Appendix X: KBo 1,37+ Appendix XI: KBo 26,27 -- Appendix XII: KUB 37,147+ Appendix XIII: KUB 3,108 -- Bibliography -- Indices of Cited Text Passages -- Text Names -- Manuscript Numbers. With The Composition and Tradition of Erimḫuš Kaira Boddy offers the first comprehensive study of the lexical list Erimḫuš. Boddy gives a detailed analysis of its structure and the ways in which the text and its role in scribal scholarship changed over time. Erimḫuš was highly valued by the Assyrian and Babylonian scholars of the first millennium BCE and several centuries earlier even caught the interest of the Hittites, who had their own ingenious ways of interpreting and using the material. Originally a bilingual list collecting groups of Akkadian words and their Sumerian equivalents, Erimḫuš took on a radically different character in Ḫattuša |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004438173 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004438170 |