Author: British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian AntiquitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, &c., in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian AntiquitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, &c., in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian AntiquitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Cuneiform texts from Babylonian tablets in the British Museum
Author: Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian AntiquitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture
Author: Karen RadnerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019161761X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
The cuneiform script, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia, was witness to one of the world's oldest literate cultures. For over three millennia, it was the vehicle of communication from (at its greatest extent) Iran to the Mediterranean, Anatolia to Egypt. The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture examines the Ancient Middle East through the lens of cuneiform writing. The contributors, a mix of scholars from across the disciplines, explore, define, and to some extent look beyond the boundaries of the written word, using Mesopotamia's clay tablets and stone inscriptions not just as 'texts' but also as material artefacts that offer much additional information about their creators, readers, users and owners.
Babylonian Boundary-stones and Memorial-tablets in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Egyptian and Assyrian AntiquitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boundary stones
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum
Author: British MuseumThe Ark Before Noah
Author: Irving FinkelPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385537123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The recent translation of a Babylonian tablet launches a groundbreaking investigation into one of the most famous stories in the world, challenging the way we look at ancient history. Since the Victorian period, it has been understood that the story of Noah, iconic in the Book of Genesis, and a central motif in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, derives from a much older story that existed centuries before in ancient Babylon. But the relationship between the Babylonian and biblical traditions was shrouded in mystery. Then, in 2009, Irving Finkel, a curator at the British Museum and a world authority on ancient Mesopotamia, found himself playing detective when a member of the public arrived at the museum with an intriguing cuneiform tablet from a family collection. Not only did the tablet reveal a new version of the Babylonian Flood Story; the ancient poet described the size and completely unexpected shape of the ark, and gave detailed boat building specifications. Decoding this ancient message wedge by cuneiform wedge, Dr. Finkel discovered where the Babylonians believed the ark came to rest and developed a new explanation of how the old story ultimately found its way into the Bible. In The Ark Before Noah, Dr. Finkel takes us on an adventurous voyage of discovery, opening the door to an enthralling world of ancient voices and new meanings.
Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum
Author: Terence C. MitchellPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004156151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
This volume publishes drawings of the impressions of stamp seals preserved on Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform tablets, and other clay objects in the collections of The British Museum. The majority of these seals bears precise dates, ranging from the 9th to the 2nd centuries B.C.; represens the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenian and Hellenistic periods; and are set out in chronological order so that the changes in seal design can be clearly seen. Among the images from the Hellenistic period are representations of zodiacal signs.The volume also includes details of seal impressions on the handles of pottery jars from Palestine. Full bibliographical references to previous publications of the cuneiform texts are given, and the volume concludes with concordances and indices, including a pictorial index of all the seal images arranged typologically.
Author: British Museum