This volume publishes in full for the first time all known cuneiform manuscripts of an Akkadian calendar treatise that is unified by the theme of Babylonia's invasion. It was composed in the milieu of Marduk's Esagil temple in Babylon, probably in the Hellenistic period before c. 170 BC. Esagil rituals are presented as essential to protect Babylonia, and specifically Marduk's principal cult statue, from foreign attack. The treatise builds the case by drawing on traditional and late Babylonian cuneiform scholarship, including astronomy-astrology, accounts of warfare with Elam and Assyria, battle myths of Marduk and Ninurta, and wordplay. Calendrical sections contain an amalgam of apotropaic ritual against invasion, astrological omens of invasion as ritual triggers, past conflicts as historical precedent, divine combatants representing human foes, and sophisticated exegesis. The work is partially preserved on damaged clay tablets in the British Museum's Babylonian collection and the volume presents hand-drawn cuneiform copies, a composite edition, and a manuscript score. A comprehensive contextualizing introduction provides readers in a range of fields - including Assyriology, classics and ancient history, ancient Iranian studies, Biblical studies, and ancient astronomy and astrology - with a key overview of topics in Mesopotamian scholarship, the manuscripts themselves, and their language and orthography. A detailed commentary explores how the treatise aims to demonstrate the critical importance of the traditional Esagil temple in Babylon for the security of Babylonia and its later imperial rulers.
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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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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 Mu%s=ezib 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=anu § 4 i 24'-35': Du'=uzu § 5 ii 1-3: [Du'=uzu] or [Abu (day x)] § 6 ii 1'-13': [Abu (day x)] § 7 ii 14'-iii 8: [Ul=ulu] § 8 iii 9-15: Ta%sr=itu day 6 § 9 iii 16-26: Ta%sr=itu day 8 § 10 iii 27-30: Ta%sr=itu day 13 § 12 iii 1''-5'': [Kisl=imu (day x)] § 13 iv 1-41: .Teb=etu § 14 iv 1'-12': [Addaru (day x)] Endmatter References General index Selective index of texts and publications CUNEIFORM TEXTS Plates 1-8
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Reynolds should be congratulated, and readers should be pleased, to see this important text finally elucidated in print.
Publishes in full for the first time all known cuneiform manuscripts of a Late Babylonian Akkadian calendar treatise from Babylon Contains hand-drawn copies of the tablets, making the cuneiform manuscripts available to the reader Presents an editio princeps of the treatise alongside an English translation, making it accessible to both specialists and non-specialists Covers a wide range of contextual information in a comprehensive introduction, which will be of use to readers from across a variety of disciplines Offers an in-depth study of points of detail in an exegetic commentary
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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.
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Publishes in full for the first time all known cuneiform manuscripts of a Late Babylonian Akkadian calendar treatise from Babylon Contains hand-drawn copies of the tablets, making the cuneiform manuscripts available to the reader Presents an editio princeps of the treatise alongside an English translation, making it accessible to both specialists and non-specialists Covers a wide range of contextual information in a comprehensive introduction, which will be of use to readers from across a variety of disciplines Offers an in-depth study of points of detail in an exegetic commentary
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ISBN
9780199539949
Publisert
2019
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Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
1140 gr
Høyde
251 mm
Bredde
195 mm
Dybde
35 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
496

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Biographical note

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.