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Author Homan, Zenobia, author

Title Mittani palaeography / Zenobia Sabrina Homan
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Series Cuneiform monographs ; volume 48
Cuneiform monographs ; 48.
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Figures -- Tables -- Maps -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Cuneiform Palaeography -- 1.2 Mittani Palaeography -- 1.3 Middle Assyrian Palaeography -- 1.4 Nuzi Palaeography -- 1.5 Palaeography of Northern Mesopotamia -- Chapter 2 Writing and Identity -- 2.1 Tablets as Artefacts -- 2.2 The Archaeology of Knowledge -- 2.3 Social Networks -- 2.4 Social Identity -- 2.5 Semiotics -- 2.6 Categorisation -- 2.7 Digital Humanities -- 2.8 Sign-composition -- 2.9 Sign-organisation -- 2.10 Methodology -- 2.11 Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 3 Mittani and Assyro-Mittanian -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Corpus -- 3.2.1 The Tušratta Letters -- 3.2.2 The Other Mittani Tablets -- 3.2.3 The Assyro-Mittani Tablets -- 3.3 Comparative Palaeography of Mittani -- 3.3.1 Divergent and Diagonal Wedges -- 3.3.2 Cross-corpus Sign-form Diversity -- 3.3.3 Inter-corpus Sign-form Diversity -- 3.3.4 Variants -- 3.4 Comments -- 3.4.1 Summary -- 3.4.2 Tablet Format -- 3.4.3 Relevance of Hurrian -- 3.5 Final Remarks -- Chapter 4 Middle Assyrian -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Selected Middle Assyrian Corpus -- 4.2.1 Aššur 14446 -- 4.2.2 Aššur 14410
4.3 Middle Assyrian Tablet Format -- 4.4 Comparative Palaeography of Middle Assyrian -- 4.5 Comparison of Key Signs between Scribes -- 4.6 Comments -- 4.6.1 Summary -- 4.6.2 Assyrian Amarna Correspondence -- 4.7 Final Remarks -- Chapter 5 Nuzi and Tigunanum -- 5.1 Introduction to Nuzi -- 5.1.1 Archaeological Context -- 5.1.2 Social Context -- 5.2 The Selected Nuzi Corpus -- 5.3 Comparative Palaeography of Nuzi -- 5.3.1 Note on the Old Copies -- 5.3.2 Differences between the Corpora -- 5.3.3 Differences between Scribes -- 5.4 Comments -- 5.4.1 Summary -- 5.4.2 Individual Scribal Hands
5.4.3 Historical Background -- 5.5 Introduction to Tigunanum -- 5.6 The Tigunanum Corpus -- 5.7 Comparative Palaeography of Tigunanum -- 5.8 Comments -- 5.8.1 Summary -- 5.8.2 Comparing Tigunanum to Other Script-groups -- 5.9 Final Remarks -- Chapter 6 Comparative Palaeography -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Complete Comparison -- 6.2.1 Analysis -- 6.2.2 Are They Mittanian? -- 6.3 Other Writing from Northern Mesopotamia -- 6.4 Final Remarks -- Chapter 7 Conclusions -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Writing as a Marker of Identity -- 7.3 Defining Mittani Script -- 7.4 The Organisation of Society -- Appendices
Appendix A Complete Mittani Corpus (as of 2018) -- Appendix B Selected Assyro-Mittanian Corpus -- Appendix C Selected Early Middle Assyrian Corpus -- Appendix D Selected Later Middle Assyrian Corpus -- Appendix E Selected Nuzi Corpus -- Appendix F Published Tigunanum Corpus (as of 2018) -- Appendix G Mittani Sign-list -- Appendix H Middle Assyrian Sign-list -- Appendix I Nuzi Sign-list -- Appendix J Tigunanum Sign-list -- Appendix K Comparative Sign-list Mittani -- Bibliography -- Index of Places -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
Summary "In Mittani Palaeography, Zenobia Homan analyses cuneiform writing from the Late Bronze Age Mittani state, which was situated in the region between modern Aleppo, Erbil and Diyarbakır. The ancient communication network reveals a story of local scribal tradition blended with regional adaptation and international political change, reflecting the ways in which written knowledge travelled within the cuneiform culture of the Middle East. Mittani signs, their forms, and variants, are described and defined in detail utilising a large digital database and discussed in relation to other regional corpora (Assyro-Mittanian, Middle Assyrian, Nuzi and Tigunanum among others). The collected data indicate that Mittanian was comparatively standardised - an innovation for the period - signifying the existence of a centralised system of scribal training"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Mitanni (Ancient kingdom) -- History -- Sources
Cuneiform writing.
Cuneiform inscriptions.
cuneiform.
Cuneiform inscriptions
Cuneiform writing
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019037967
ISBN 9004417249
9789004417243