Living and Dying in Mesopotamia

Gadotti, Alhena

Religion & Spirituality

Bloomsbury Academic

Alhena Gadotti offers a much needed new edition of the Sumerian composition Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld, last published by Aaron Shaffer in his 1963 doctoral dissertation. Since then, several new manuscripts have come to light, prompting not only a new edition of the text, but also a re-examination of the composition. In this book, Gadotti argues that Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld was the first, not the last of the Sumerian stories about Gilgamesh. She also suggests that a Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle, currently only attested in old Babylonian manuscripts (ca. 18th century BCE), was in fact developed during the Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BCE). Providing a new way to look at the Sumerian Gilgamesh stories, this book is relevant not only to scholars of the ancient Near East, but also to anyone interested in epic and epic cycle.

Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld and the Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle (Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie, 10)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

de Gruyter

In this volume, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman investigate how Akkadian speakers learned Sumerian during the Old Babylonian period in areas outside major cities. Despite the fact that it was a dead language at the time, Sumerian was considered a crucial part of scribal training due to its cultural importance. This book provides transliterations and translations of 715 cuneiform scribal school exercise texts from the Jonathan and Jeanette Rosen Ancient Near Eastern Studies Collection at Cornell University. These tablets, consisting mainly of lexical texts, illustrate the process of elementary foreign-language training at scribal schools during the Old Babylonian period. Although the tablets are all without provenance, discrepancies between these texts and those from other sites, such as Nippur and Ur, strongly suggest that the texts published here do not come from a previously studied location. Comparing these tablets with previously published documents, Gadotti and Kleinerman argue that elementary education in Mesopotamia was relatively standardized and that knowledge of cuneiform writing was more widespread than previously assumed. By refining our understanding of education in southern Mesopotamia, this volume elucidates more fully the pedagogical underpinnings of the world's first curriculum devised to teach a dead language. As a text edition, it will make these important documents accessible to Assyriologists and Sumerologists for future study.

Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia (CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology)

Kleinerman, Alexandra

Eisenbrauns

This volume contains transliteration, translation, and copy of Ur III and Old Babylonian texts, with a few Middle Babylonian and Neo-Babylonian texts.

CUSAS 15: Cuneiform Texts in the Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University (CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology)

History

Sigrist, Marcel

Ancient Civilizations

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