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Cuneiform (Reading the Past, Band 3) - Softcover

Buch 4 von 10: Reading the Past

Walker, C. B. F.

 
9780520061156: Cuneiform (Reading the Past, Band 3)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520061152 ISBN 13: 9780520061156
Verlag: University of California Press, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

The cuneiform writing system flourished in the Near East from before 3000 BC to AD 75. This book surveys the development of the script from the earliest pictographic signs to the latest astronomical tablets and the process by which it came to be used for writing many different Near Eastern languages. Sample texts show how the script is analysed into words and syllables and how to read the names of the most famous kings as they appear on monuments. In addition, extracts from contemporary Sumerian literature and school texts give an account of the training of the scribes, and the various types of inscription they wrote are illustrated. The decipherment of cuneiform is explained andfor the collectorsome guidelines for the identification of fake inscriptions are given.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Christopher Walker is an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities in the British Museum. He has written several works on Babylonian cuneiform inscriptions and Mesopotamian history.

Aus dem Klappentext

"There is nothing in existence or in preparation to my knowledge that competes with the Walker text. I rate it as very important."Anne Kilmer, University of California, Berkeley

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1987
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520061152
ISBN 13 
9780520061156
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
2
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