private archives of Ugarit, The. A functional analysis
Title | private archives of Ugarit, The. A functional analysis PDF eBook |
Author | Gregorio del Olmo Lete |
Publisher | Edicions Universitat Barcelona |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2018-11-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 8491681949 |
The first impression one gains from a summary overview of the epigraphic finds from the tell of Ras Shamra is one of an ancient city packed with written documentation: from the Royal Palace, with its huge archives, to everywhere in the center and around the northern and southern parts of the town, collections of texts were held in private archives. Any place that an archaeological sounding was made, a more or less significant set of written documents has been found. Ugarit, even more so than the great capital cities of Mesopotamia and Anatolia, appears in this regard to be a paradigm of the triumph of writing as a decisive instrument in the cultural and economic development of the ancient Near East. Indeed, with its twelve public and private archives, Ugarit could rightly be labeled “the endless archive”.
The Private Archives of Ugarit
Title | The Private Archives of Ugarit PDF eBook |
Author | Gregorio del Olmo Lete |
Publisher | |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788491682394 |
Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue – Volume 1
Title | Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue – Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Christian W. Hess |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2021-12-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1803270950 |
Proceedings of the Broadening Horizons 6 conference (2019): Volume 1 presents 17 papers from Session 1: Entanglement. Material Culture and Written Sources in Dialogue; Session 2: Integrating Sciences in Historical and Archaeological Research; and Session 5: Which Continuity? Evaluating Stability, Transformation, and Change in Transitional Periods.
Script and Society
Title | Script and Society PDF eBook |
Author | Philip J. Boyes |
Publisher | Oxbow Books |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2021-03-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1789255864 |
By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing practices. As well as two main scripts – alphabetic and logographic cuneiform - the site has also produced inscriptions in a wide range of scripts and languages, including Hurrian, Sumerian, Hittite, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs and Cypro-Minoan. This variety in script and language is accompanied by writing practices that blend influences from Mesopotamian, Anatolian and Levantine traditions together with what seem to be distinctive local innovations. Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit explores the social and cultural context of these complex writing traditions from the perspective of writing as a social practice. It combines archaeology, epigraphy, history and anthropology to present a highly interdisciplinary exploration of social questions relating to writing at the site, including matters of gender, ethnicity, status and other forms of identity, the relationship between writing and place, and the complex relationships between inscribed and uninscribed objects. This forms a case- study for a wider discussion of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of writing practices in the ancient world.
Antiguo Oriente - Volume 16 (2018)
Title | Antiguo Oriente - Volume 16 (2018) PDF eBook |
Author | Romina Della Casa |
Publisher | CEHAO |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2018-12-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Antiguo Oriente (abbreviated as AntOr) is the annual, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal published by the Center of Studies of Ancient Near Eastern History (CEHAO), Catholic University of Argentina.
From Nomadism to Monarchy?
Title | From Nomadism to Monarchy? PDF eBook |
Author | Ido Koch |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 164602270X |
Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World
Title | Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World PDF eBook |
Author | Federico Giusfredi |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 2023-07-03 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004548637 |
Ever since the early 2nd millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia has been a crossroads of languages and peoples. Indo-European peoples – Hittites, Luwians, Palaeans – and non-Indo-European ones – Hattians, but also Assyrians and Hurrians – coexisted with each other for extended periods of time during the Bronze Age, a cohabitation that left important traces in the languages they spoke and in the texts they wrote. By combining, in an interdisciplinary fashion, the complementary approaches of linguistics, history, and philology, this book offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art study of linguistic and cultural contacts in a region that is often described as the bridge between the East and the West. With contributions by Paola Cotticelli-Kurras, Alfredo Rizza, Maurizio Viano, and Ilya Yakubovich.