Carole Roche-Hawley

Gebundenes Buch

Babylonian Ceremonial Script in its Scholarly Context

Beschreibung

This volume provides a substantive introduction to Babylonian ceremonial script, along with a history of its modern study, and several case studies of how the script was actually used.

Autor

Carole Roche-Hawley is an Assyriologist whose research focuses on the diffusion of Mesopotamian written culture in the Near East in the second and first millennia BCE, and on the history and uses of the various cuneiform scripts. She is a member of the Franco-Syrian Mission de Ras Shamra-Ougarit, and the author of two text editions: from Ras Ibn Hani (Syria) and from Malamir in Elam (Iran). She is research director at the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), and since 2022 has been appointed to the French foreign ministry as scientific director at the Institut francais du Proche-Orient (IFPO), where she heads the department of archeology and ancient history, covering Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and the Palestinian territories.

Produktdetails

• Critical Editions of Ancient Texts
• Verlag: Lockwood Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 315mm x 235mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1328g
• ISBN-13: 9781948488396
• ISBN-10: 1948488396
• Artikelnr.: 64137401