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Author:   Nicholas L. Kraus
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   67
Weight:   0.515kg
ISBN:  

9789004443228

ISBN 10:   9004443223
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   08 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgments Abbreviations List of Illustrations 1 Introduction  1.1 The Sargonic Period  1.2 Previous Research  1.3 The Concept of a Curriculum  1.4 The Sources 2 Writing Technology and Paleography  2.1 Tablet Manufacture  2.2 The Stylus  2.3 Tablet Layout and Organization  2.4 Current Research on Sargonic Paleography  2.5 Typology of Sargonic Tablets  2.6 Contextualizing Paleographic Developments  2.7 Tablet Orientation  2.8 Summary and Conclusion 3 The School Texts  3.1 Introduction  3.2 Elementary Exercises  3.3 Mathematics and Metrology  3.4 Model Administration  3.5 Literature  3.6 Traditional Lexical Lists  3.7 An Overview of the Curriculum 4 Scribal Education in Context  4.1 Introduction  4.2 Archaeological Evidence  4.3 The Sargonic E₂-dub-ba-a?  4.4 Literacy in the Sargonic Period  4.5 The Language of Instruction  4.6 Conclusion 5 After Akkade  5.1 The Transmission of Knowledge  5.2 Summary and Conclusions Appendix: School Tablets Bibliography Index

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Nicholas Kraus, Ph.D. (2018), Yale University, is a Research Fellow in the Institut für Altorientalistik at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has published several articles about the social and political history of Sargonic rule in Mesopotamia, such as When the King Came Down to Sumer: The Royal Sojourn of Sar-kali-sarrē and the Court of Akkade (Iraq 2019).

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