Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium Bce Babylonia

Investigates the study of Sumerian by nonnative Akkadian speakers during the Old Babylonian period in areas outside major cities whose schools have been studied extensively. Provides transliterations and translations of 715 cuneiform school exercise texts.

About the author

Alhena Gadotti is Professor of History at Towson University. She is the author of "Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the NetherworldÓ and the Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle and coeditor of Cuneiform Texts in the Carl A. Kroch Library (CUSAS 15), also published by Eisenbrauns.Alexandra Kleinerman is a faculty research associate at Cornell University. She is the coauthor of The Nesbit Tablets, also published by Eisenbrauns.

Summary

Investigates the study of Sumerian by nonnative Akkadian speakers during the Old Babylonian period in areas outside major cities whose schools have been studied extensively. Provides transliterations and translations of 715 cuneiform school exercise texts.

Product details

• Authors: Alhena Gadotti, Alhena Kleinerman Gadotti, Gadotti Alhena, Alexandra (Postdoctoral Associate Kleinerman, Kleinerman Alexandra
• Publisher: Eisenbrauns publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781646021383
• ISBN: 978-1-64602-138-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: CUSAS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, HISTORY / Middle East / Iraq, Classical texts, Ancient World, Literature: history & criticism, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE