Journal |
KASKAL
Journal issue | Volume 1 | Nuova serie
Research Article | Typological Aspects of Scholarly Tablets in the Library of Ashurbanipal
Typological Aspects of Scholarly Tablets in the Library of Ashurbanipal
Abstract
The Library of Ashurbanipal is an archetype of standardisation in cuneiform. It has been seen as a collection of compositions whose text took the form of fixed, canonical versions on which modern reconstructions can best rely. The script used in the Library is so carefully controlled and standardised that it has been described as ‘typewriter’ script. An aspect that has received less attention is the typology of the tablets on which the standardised texts were written in this careful Library script. As the thousands of fragments into which the Library was shattered in antiquity are gradually pieced back together, the types of tablet in that collection are becoming more apparent. These types help us understand the nature of the tablets in antiquity, as well as the functioning and vision of the Library itself.
Submitted: Sept. 2, 2024 | Accepted: Oct. 31, 2024 | Published Dec. 19, 2024 | Language: en
Keywords Terminology • Typology • Materiality • Colophons • Standardisation
Copyright © 2024 Babette Schnitzlein, Jon Taylor. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/KASKAL/5235-1939/2024/01/015
- Editorial
- Dec. 19, 2024
- Lugal-šà-lá-tuku: Glimpses into the Career of an Old Sumerian Chief Sea Fisherman from Lagaš and his Work Environment
- Thomas E. Balke
- Dec. 19, 2024
- The Burial Pit of the ensi₂ of Gizuna (ŠID.NUNki) and the Cemetery of Ur Between the Late Early Dynastic and Early Sargonic Periods
- Palmiro Notizia
- Dec. 19, 2024
- Sngr/Samḫarû/Sanḫara/Šinʿār and the Implications for Early Kassite History
- Tim Clayden
- Dec. 19, 2024
-
The Philia facies and the Interaction Between Cyprus and Cilicia
The Transformations in the Architectural Structures - Irene Sandei
- Dec. 19, 2024
- Phonetic Classifiers in the Anatolian Hieroglyphic Script
- Annick Payne
- Dec. 19, 2024
-
Kleine Beiträge zu den unpublizierten Bo-Texten (IV)
Eine Festschreibung aus dem Kultkreis von Zippalanda (Bo 2689 = CHDS 5.1) - Oğuz Soysal
- Dec. 19, 2024
Papers Presented at the International Workshop Hygiene in the Ancient Near East: Power, Privilege, Inequality
- Introduction. Hygiene in the Ancient Near East: Power, Privilege, Inequality
- Ludovico Portuese
- Dec. 19, 2024
- Exclusionary Practices in Ancient Mesopotamia: Steps Towards a Bio-Cultural Approach
- Yitzhaq Feder
- Dec. 19, 2024
- The Exorcist’s Purity
- Evelyne Koubková
- Dec. 19, 2024
- Personal Hygiene or Cultic Purity? Analysis of Cleansing Acts in Hemerologies of the First Millennium BC
- Saki Kikuchi
- Dec. 19, 2024
- Purification, Defilement, and Privilege? An Example from the Hemerological and Menological Corpus
- Aino Hätinen
- Dec. 19, 2024
- Bathing Rooms in First-Millennium Assyria
- Ludovico Portuese
- Dec. 19, 2024
- Bathrooms and Toilets in Babylon-Merkes: Speculation or Reality?
- Svende Bielefeld
- Dec. 19, 2024
Papers Presented at the International Workshop Scribes and Librarians at Work. Making, Writing, Marking, and Handling Tablets in 1st Mill. BC Mesopotamian Libraries
- Introduction. Scribes and Librarians at Work
- Paola Corò, Stefania Ermidoro
- Dec. 19, 2024
- Typological Aspects of Scholarly Tablets in the Library of Ashurbanipal
- Babette Schnitzlein, Jon Taylor
- Dec. 19, 2024
- Copying from Wooden Originals? Investigating the Materiality and Rationale for Holes in the Tablets from the Library of Ashurbanipal
- Paola Corò, Stefania Ermidoro
- Dec. 19, 2024
- The Scribe’s Imprint: Ištar-šumu-ēreš and the Formation of Ashurbanipal’s Library
- Sophie Cohen
- Dec. 19, 2024
-
‘Weaving Together Loose Threads’
On the Serialisation of the Therapeutic Corpus at Nineveh - Krisztián Simkó
- Dec. 19, 2024
- Ludlul bēl nēmeqi in Ashurbanipal’s Library
- Aino Hätinen
- Dec. 19, 2024
- How to Write a Hymn: Material Features in Manuscripts of Akkadian Poetry
- Geraldina Rozzi
- Dec. 19, 2024
- Apprenticeship and the Materiality of Texts in Uruk during the Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Periods
- Marie Young
- Dec. 19, 2024
| DC Field | Value |
|---|---|
|
dc.identifier |
ECF_article_21319 |
|
dc.title |
Typological Aspects of Scholarly Tablets in the Library of Ashurbanipal |
|
dc.contributor.author |
Schnitzlein Babette |
|
dc.contributor.author |
Taylor Jon |
|
dc.publisher |
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
|
dc.type |
Research Article |
|
dc.language.iso |
en |
|
dc.identifier.uri |
http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/kaskal/2024/1/typological-aspects-of-scholarly-tablets-in-the-li/ |
|
dc.description.abstract |
The Library of Ashurbanipal is an archetype of standardisation in cuneiform. It has been seen as a collection of compositions whose text took the form of fixed, canonical versions on which modern reconstructions can best rely. The script used in the Library is so carefully controlled and standardised that it has been described as ‘typewriter’ script. An aspect that has received less attention is the typology of the tablets on which the standardised texts were written in this careful Library script. As the thousands of fragments into which the Library was shattered in antiquity are gradually pieced back together, the types of tablet in that collection are becoming more apparent. These types help us understand the nature of the tablets in antiquity, as well as the functioning and vision of the Library itself. |
|
dc.relation.ispartof |
KASKAL |
|
dc.relation.ispartof |
Volume 1 | Nuova serie |
|
dc.issued |
2024-12-19 |
|
dc.dateAccepted |
2024-10-31 |
|
dc.dateSubmitted |
2024-09-02 |
|
dc.identifier.issn |
|
|
dc.identifier.eissn |
2036-5845 |
|
dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
|
dc.rights.uri |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
|
dc.identifier.doi |
10.30687/KASKAL/5235-1939/2024/01/015 |
|
dc.peer-review |
yes |
|
dc.subject |
Colophons |
|
dc.subject |
Materiality |
|
dc.subject |
Standardisation |
|
dc.subject |
Terminology |
|
dc.subject |
Typology |
| Download data |