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Fragmente einer grossen Sprache

Fragmente einer grossen Sprache

Bartelmus, Alexa Sabine

Hardcover

Series: Untersuchungen Zur Assyriologie Und Vorderasiatischen Archäo, Book 12

Bible StudiesGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1501512072
ISBN13: 9781501512070
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Sep 12 2016
Pages: 271
Weight: 2.03
Height: 0.63 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: German

The present work attempts to close a gap in our knowledge of the history of Sumerian between the extensive and well-understood corpus of texts from the late 3rd to early 2nd millennia B.C.E. and the sparsely-attested Sumerian of the 1st millennium BCE. Consulting new textual materials from the Vorderasiatisches Museum of Berlin, this investigation devotes special attention to key linguistic features of Sumerian in this epoch, the contexts and ideological significance of its use, and scribal education in Kassite Babylonia generally. Although it may seem to handle disparate themes at first glance, these topics are in fact linked since scribal education provided the key source for knowledge of Sumerian in a time when there were no longer native Sumerian speakers. The analysis and the comparison with previous and subsequent epochs provided here allow lines of development and regional trends to come into clearer view, but they also show the inherent difficulty in describing Kassite Sumerian as a language and in assessing its quality.

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