Scribal Education in the Sargonic Period /

Scribal Education in the Sargonic Period /

Scribal Education in the Sargonic Period is an in-depth analysis of the process of education for scribes during the period of Sargonic hegemony in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 2335-2150 BCE). The book provides a holistic study of the topic, addressing the technology of writing, the school texts used in e...

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Main Author: Kraus, Nicholas L. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Series: Harvard Semitic Studies ; 67.

Subjects:

Mesopotamia.
Cuneiform writing.
Scribes > Iraq > History.

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Call Number: DS71

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Illustrations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 The Sargonic Period
  • 1.2 Previous Research
  • 1.3 The Concept of a Curriculum
  • 1.4 The Sources
  • 2 Writing Technology and Paleography
  • 2.1 Tablet Manufacture
  • 2.2 The Stylus
  • 2.3 Tablet Layout and Organization
  • 2.4 Current Research on Sargonic Paleography
  • 2.5 Typology of Sargonic Tablets
  • 2.6 Contextualizing Paleographic Developments
  • 2.7 Tablet Orientation
  • 2.8 Summary and Conclusion
  • 3 The School Texts
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Elementary Exercises
  • 3.3 Mathematics and Metrology
  • 3.4 Model Administration
  • 3.5 Literature
  • 3.6 Traditional Lexical Lists
  • 3.7 An Overview of the Curriculum
  • 4 Scribal Education in Context
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Archaeological Evidence
  • 4.3 The Sargonic E₂-dub-ba-a?
  • 4.4 Literacy in the Sargonic Period
  • 4.5 The Language of Instruction
  • 4.6 Conclusion
  • 5 After Akkade
  • 5.1 The Transmission of Knowledge
  • 5.2 Summary and Conclusions
  • Appendix: School Tablets
  • Bibliography
  • Index.