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List of contents
- Frontmatter
- Bibliographical Abbreviations
- Selected Conventions
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. The calendar treatise and Mesopotamian scholarship
- 2. Topography: Babylonian cult and warfare
- 3. Manuscripts of the calendar treatise and the Muš¿zib family
- 4. Language and orthography
- EDITION
- Table of manuscripts
- Previous publications
- Calendar treatise: composite edition
- MS A colophon and MS C vi: edition
- Calendar treatise: manuscript score
- COMMENTARY
- § 1 i 1-12: [Nisannu (day x)]
- § 2 i 1'-7': [Ayaru (day x)]
- § 3 i 8'-23': Sim¿nu
- § 4 i 24'-35': Du'¿zu
- § 5 ii 1-3: [Du'¿zu] or [Abu (day x)]
- § 6 ii 1'-13': [Abu (day x)]
- § 7 ii 14'-iii 8: [Ul¿lu]
- § 8 iii 9-15: Tašr¿tu day 6
- § 9 iii 16-26: Tašr¿tu day 8
- § 10 iii 27-30: Tašr¿tu day 13
- § 12 iii 1''-5'': [Kisl¿mu (day x)]
- § 13 iv 1-41: ¿eb¿tu
- § 14 iv 1'-12': [Addaru (day x)]
- Endmatter
- References
- General index
- Selective index of texts and publications
- CUNEIFORM TEXTS
- Plates 1-8
About the author
Frances Reynolds is the Shillito Fellow in Assyriology in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, and Fellow and Tutor in Oriental Studies at St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford. After completing her BA in Classics and PhD in Ancient History and Archaeology (Assyriology), she held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Birmingham and worked as a State Archives of Assyria Editor at the University of Helsinki for three years. After teaching and carrying out research in Assyriology at a range of universities in the UK, she began her permanent appointment at the University of Oxford in 2006.
Summary
This volume publishes in full for the first time all known cuneiform manuscripts of an Akkadian calendar treatise composed in Babylon in the Late Babylonian period. Hand-drawn copies of the clay tablets in the British Museum, a composite edition, and a manuscript score, are accompanied by a contextualizing introduction and detailed commentary.
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The Babylon Calendar Treatise is a document that holds much potential for exploring further questions about cuneiform culture in the last centuries of its existence. With her excellent edition and extensive commentary, Reynolds has paved the way for future research on this difficult text...This monograph will be important for many years to come.
