This volume publishes in full for the first time all known cuneiform manuscripts of an Akkadian calendar treatise composed in Babylon in the Late Babylonian period. Hand-drawn copies of the clay tablets in the British Museum, a composite edition, and a manuscript score, are accompanied by a contextualizing introduction and detailed commentary.
This volume publishes in full for the first time all known cuneiform manuscripts of an Akkadian calendar treatise composed in Babylon in the Late Babylonian period. Hand-drawn copies of the clay tablets in the British Museum, a composite edition, and a manuscript score, are accompanied by a contextualizing introduction and detailed commentary.
Frances Reynolds is the Shillito Fellow in Assyriology in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, and Fellow and Tutor in Oriental Studies at St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford. After completing her BA in Classics and PhD in Ancient History and Archaeology (Assyriology), she held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Birmingham and worked as a State Archives of Assyria Editor at the University of Helsinki for three years. After teaching and carrying out research in Assyriology at a range of universities in the UK, she began her permanent appointment at the University of Oxford in 2006.
Inhaltsangabe
* Frontmatter * Bibliographical Abbreviations * Selected Conventions * INTRODUCTION * 1. The calendar treatise and Mesopotamian scholarship * 2. Topography: Babylonian cult and warfare * 3. Manuscripts of the calendar treatise and the Mu zib family * 4. Language and orthography * EDITION * Table of manuscripts * Previous publications * Calendar treatise: composite edition * MS A colophon and MS C vi: edition * Calendar treatise: manuscript score * COMMENTARY * § 1 i 1-12: [Nisannu (day x)] * § 2 i 1'-7': [Ayaru (day x)] * § 3 i 8'-23': Sim nu * § 4 i 24'-35': Du' zu * § 5 ii 1-3: [Du' zu] or [Abu (day x)] * § 6 ii 1'-13': [Abu (day x)] * § 7 ii 14'-iii 8: [Ul lu] * § 8 iii 9-15: Tar tu day 6 * § 9 iii 16-26: Tar tu day 8 * § 10 iii 27-30: Tar tu day 13 * § 12 iii 1''-5'': [Kisl mu (day x)] * § 13 iv 1-41: eb tu * § 14 iv 1'-12': [Addaru (day x)] * Endmatter * References * General index * Selective index of texts and publications * CUNEIFORM TEXTS * Plates 1-8
* Frontmatter * Bibliographical Abbreviations * Selected Conventions * INTRODUCTION * 1. The calendar treatise and Mesopotamian scholarship * 2. Topography: Babylonian cult and warfare * 3. Manuscripts of the calendar treatise and the Mu zib family * 4. Language and orthography * EDITION * Table of manuscripts * Previous publications * Calendar treatise: composite edition * MS A colophon and MS C vi: edition * Calendar treatise: manuscript score * COMMENTARY * § 1 i 1-12: [Nisannu (day x)] * § 2 i 1'-7': [Ayaru (day x)] * § 3 i 8'-23': Sim nu * § 4 i 24'-35': Du' zu * § 5 ii 1-3: [Du' zu] or [Abu (day x)] * § 6 ii 1'-13': [Abu (day x)] * § 7 ii 14'-iii 8: [Ul lu] * § 8 iii 9-15: Tar tu day 6 * § 9 iii 16-26: Tar tu day 8 * § 10 iii 27-30: Tar tu day 13 * § 12 iii 1''-5'': [Kisl mu (day x)] * § 13 iv 1-41: eb tu * § 14 iv 1'-12': [Addaru (day x)] * Endmatter * References * General index * Selective index of texts and publications * CUNEIFORM TEXTS * Plates 1-8
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