pp. 237–248 in: Libiamo ne’ lieti calici. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Lucio Milano on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday by Pupils, Colleagues and Friends. AOAT 436. P. Corò, E. Devecchi, N. De Zorzi, M. Maiocchi (eds.), , 2016
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Laurent Colonna d’Istria und Walther Sallaberger bieten mit diesem dreibändigen Werk einen umfassenden Einstieg in das Sumerische, die in Keilschrift überlieferte Sprache des frühen Mesopotamien. Sie konzentrieren sich auf die Zeit von Gudea von Lagaš bis Lipit-Eštar von Isin (2150 bis 1900 v.d.Z.), als im südlichen Irak Sumerisch als Alltagssprache diente und zugleich Hauptwerke sumerischer Literatur geschaffen wurden. Die fünfzig Beispieltexte reichen von Inschriften über archivalische Dokumente bis zu Gesetzen und poetischen Texten. Von den meisten Keilschrifttexten wurden eigens für dieses Werk neue präzise Umzeichnungen erstellt. Zeichenlisten und Glossare erschließen in zuverlässiger Weise Schrift und Wortschatz; die Grammatik berücksichtigt unterschiedliche Ansätze und aktuelle Forschungen. Diese Einführung eignet sich für den akademischen Unterricht ebenso wie für das Selbststudium und soll Anfängern oder Interessierten die Sprache, die Keilschrift und das Schrifttum Sumers nahebringen.
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especially with the use of month names, a social group attributed meaning to time.
The institution of the mašdaria festival provisions is a key element in the understanding of how the population was involved in large festivals. Goods from mašdaria deliveries were used in feasts of the state, both in the large temple festivals and in the palace. Contrary to taxes, which are collected in a common state budget to
meet public expenditure, the mašdaria was determined in accordance with the most important public events. The social aspect of the mašdaria appears even in its latest forms in the kingdom of the Third Dynasty of Ur (21st c. BCE), and even in the contributions in silver: they were handed over to the temple in a public event at the state’s most important festivals.
guests at Ebla, the second one the top social personages at a city festival in Girsu.
From: in G. Chambon, M. Guichard & A.-I. Langlois (eds), De l'argile au numérique. Mélanges assyriologiques en l'honneur de Dominique Charpin, ISBN 978-90-429-3872-4. pp.892-922
gerufen.
The Instructions of Šuruppak are a most important source to reconstruct the personal perspective of the inhabitants of Early Bronze Age Mesopotamia whom we know mainly from administrative documents. In this way we see the responsability of each single participant in a communal organization, whereas a study of the administrative lists alone often leads to a distorted caricature of dull workers directed by mighty and omniscient managers, ‘elites’ or rulers.
The themes prayer and divine authorities, both belonging to the wider theme of religion, patriotism and the veneration of the family, were identified as Old Babylonian insertions first of all by formal grounds. But they also represent well the different zeitgeist, when the text stemming from a foreign past was adopted to its environment in the Old Babylonian period (or perhaps slightly earlier). The protagonist of the Early Dynastic version was a member of a city state, being part of a communal organization, perhaps a temple, and he lived embedded in the society of his peers. Later, in the Old Babylonian period, the protagonist can be seen as an individual for whom family life and personal prayer appear to be more important, and the fear of foreign countries recalls the wider geographical horizon and the changed historical situation at this period.
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Laurent Colonna d’Istria und Walther Sallaberger bieten mit diesem dreibändigen Werk einen umfassenden Einstieg in das Sumerische, die in Keilschrift überlieferte Sprache des frühen Mesopotamien. Sie konzentrieren sich auf die Zeit von Gudea von Lagaš bis Lipit-Eštar von Isin (2150 bis 1900 v.d.Z.), als im südlichen Irak Sumerisch als Alltagssprache diente und zugleich Hauptwerke sumerischer Literatur geschaffen wurden. Die fünfzig Beispieltexte reichen von Inschriften über archivalische Dokumente bis zu Gesetzen und poetischen Texten. Von den meisten Keilschrifttexten wurden eigens für dieses Werk neue präzise Umzeichnungen erstellt. Zeichenlisten und Glossare erschließen in zuverlässiger Weise Schrift und Wortschatz; die Grammatik berücksichtigt unterschiedliche Ansätze und aktuelle Forschungen. Diese Einführung eignet sich für den akademischen Unterricht ebenso wie für das Selbststudium und soll Anfängern oder Interessierten die Sprache, die Keilschrift und das Schrifttum Sumers nahebringen.
especially with the use of month names, a social group attributed meaning to time.
The institution of the mašdaria festival provisions is a key element in the understanding of how the population was involved in large festivals. Goods from mašdaria deliveries were used in feasts of the state, both in the large temple festivals and in the palace. Contrary to taxes, which are collected in a common state budget to
meet public expenditure, the mašdaria was determined in accordance with the most important public events. The social aspect of the mašdaria appears even in its latest forms in the kingdom of the Third Dynasty of Ur (21st c. BCE), and even in the contributions in silver: they were handed over to the temple in a public event at the state’s most important festivals.
guests at Ebla, the second one the top social personages at a city festival in Girsu.
From: in G. Chambon, M. Guichard & A.-I. Langlois (eds), De l'argile au numérique. Mélanges assyriologiques en l'honneur de Dominique Charpin, ISBN 978-90-429-3872-4. pp.892-922
gerufen.
The Instructions of Šuruppak are a most important source to reconstruct the personal perspective of the inhabitants of Early Bronze Age Mesopotamia whom we know mainly from administrative documents. In this way we see the responsability of each single participant in a communal organization, whereas a study of the administrative lists alone often leads to a distorted caricature of dull workers directed by mighty and omniscient managers, ‘elites’ or rulers.
The themes prayer and divine authorities, both belonging to the wider theme of religion, patriotism and the veneration of the family, were identified as Old Babylonian insertions first of all by formal grounds. But they also represent well the different zeitgeist, when the text stemming from a foreign past was adopted to its environment in the Old Babylonian period (or perhaps slightly earlier). The protagonist of the Early Dynastic version was a member of a city state, being part of a communal organization, perhaps a temple, and he lived embedded in the society of his peers. Later, in the Old Babylonian period, the protagonist can be seen as an individual for whom family life and personal prayer appear to be more important, and the fear of foreign countries recalls the wider geographical horizon and the changed historical situation at this period.