• Robert Rollinger - Irene Madreiter - Martin Lang - Cinzia Pappi (Eds.)

The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East

Proceedings of the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale and the 12th Melammu Symposium, University of Innsbruck, July 16‒20, 2018

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Robert Rollinger
is Professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck

Irene Madreiter
is Associate Professor at the department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck

Martin Lang
is Associate Professor at the department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck

Cinzia Pappi
is affiliated Researcher at the School of Advanced Studies “Re-thinking Oriental Despotism” at the Freie Universität Berlin




ISBN 978-3-7001-8574-1 Print Edition
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/978OEAW85741

2023,  904 Seiten , 21,5x17,5cm, gebunden, deutsch, englisch
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In July 2018 the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (RAI) and the 12th Melammu Symposium were held together in Innsbruck. The topic of the conference, “The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East”, represented one of the main scientific objectives of the Melammu Project and aimed to investigate the continuity, transformation, diffusion and legacy of Ancient Near Eastern cultures from the third millennium BCE until the rise of Islam and beyond. The conference, hosting more than 200 papers, was a unique opportunity to discuss various aspects of the main theme, as well as other topics related to organized workshops. The forty papers and two keynotes in this volume provide an excellent selection of the lively discussions that took place during the conference.

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Im Juli 2018 fand in Innsbruck der 64. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (RAI) zusammen mit dem 12. Melammu Symposium zum Thema „The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East“, dem zentralen Anliegen des Melammu-Projekts, statt. Ziel war es, Kontinuität und Wandel sowie Ausdehnung und Nachleben altorientalischer Kulturen vom 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr. bis zum Aufstieg des Islam und darüber hinaus zu ergründen. Über 200 Vorträge und weitere themenspezifische Workshops boten den Besuchern der Konferenz die einzigartige Gelegenheit, über unterschiedliche Aspekte des Hauptthemas zu diskutieren. Die 40 Einzelbeiträge und zwei Keynotes des vorliegenden Bandes sind eine repräsentative Auswahl der lebhaften Diskussionen, die während der Konferenz stattfanden.

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The Professional Practice of the Scribes of Nuzi: A Prosopographical Investigation

    Véronique Pataï

The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East, pp. 629-647, 2023/04/12

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Abstract

Approximately 6,000 tablets were discovered in Nuzi and nearly 300 scribes produced this documentation. In order to tame this large corpus, I created a methodology for the prosopographical investigation of the scribes of Nuzi through the study of 12 scribes who worked for a woman, TULPUN-NAYA. Thanks to several criteria such as the contacts of the scribes (employers, witnesses, judges), the cities where they are active, their writing styles or even their seals and, in some cases their handwriting, it was possible to reach a more precise understanding of their professional practices. The scribes in question wrote only a small number of tablets for TULPUN-NAYA, 37 tablets, but they were employed by other persons and thus the corpus analysed comprises 460 tablets in total. The prosopographical study of these scribes highlighted the presence of many homonymous scribes. The creation of a database including the corpus of each scribe enabled comparison of the scribes and it was therefore possible to solve most of the cases of homonymy. Furthermore, by comparing the above criteria in the database, it was possible to bring to light the delivery of scribal instruction between scribes from the same family through several generations. Once the corpus of each scribe was defined, it was possible to identify the period during which they practised their professions. In the absence of any dating information, the presence of members of wealthy Nuzian families in the documents written by the scribes facilitated placement of the texts in a relative chronology. Overall, this paper both highlights the findings resulting from the analysis of the corpus of the scribes employed by TULPUNNAYA as well as the important challenges brought by homonymy and the lack of dating information.