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How to be an Assyriologist?: Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 2 October 2014 \

By Serge , Charpin , Dominique;Haroche

Book information

Publisher
Collège de France
Year
2017
ISBN
9782722604575, 2722604574
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2755182 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

Unlike works inherited from Greek or Roman Antiquity, writings from Mesopotamian civilization all come from excavations. Assyriologists work with clay tablets engraved with cuneiform characters. They piece together fragments of texts and organize them chronologically and geographically to gradually construct not only a political but also a social, economic and cultural history of Mesopotamia. The task is immense, and requires a multidisciplinary approach combining archaeology, epigraphy, philology, and history.

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