Buch, Deutsch, Band 17, 291 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 240 mm x 345 mm, Gewicht: 2200 g
Reihe: Berichte der Ausgrabung Tall Seh Hamad / Dur-Katlimmu
Buch, Deutsch, Band 17, 291 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 240 mm x 345 mm, Gewicht: 2200 g
Reihe: Berichte der Ausgrabung Tall Seh Hamad / Dur-Katlimmu
ISBN: 978-3-447-10205-6
Verlag: Harrassowitz Verlag
Inhaltlich handelt es sich überwiegend um Schuldurkunden über Silber oder Gerste. Das Textkorpus stellt eine wesentliche Erweiterung unserer Kenntnis der aramäischen Sprache am Ende des assyrischen Reiches dar und wird durch Glossare und Indizes der Namen erschlossen.
One hundred eighty-three artefacts of Old-Aramaic script and language are edited in this volume. Belonging to the category of the so called ‘dockets’, that is heart shaped bullae of air-dried clay, the impression of cords and of a knot in the interior indicate that they may have been attached to other written artefacts of perishable materials such as papyrus that has vanished and that they gave a summary or abstract of their contents. 174 of them were excavated in the section ‘Rotes Haus’ of the excavation unit ‘Central Lower Town II’. 73 of them were contextualized with the Neo-Assyrian cuneiform tablets of the ‘Šulmu-šarri archive’ (cf. BATSH 6). Rendered in both languages a number of personal names indicate that both text groups belonged originally to the same archive. The remaining nine dockets were excavated in the unit ‘Nordost-Ecke der Unterstadt II’. Added are 27 miscellaneous artefacts, mostly ostraca and inscriptions on jars, a few in Phoenician language, and a unique affiliation record written in ink on the clay impression of the foot of the pertained child. A complete list of the registered written artefacts of the Neo-Assyrian period from the excavation section ‘Rotes Haus’ is published in BATSH 11, 410-427, including those fragments that have not been edited. Furthermore, this volume includes ten ‘dockets’ that were excavated illicitly, sold on the art market, and published previously but that originate most likely from Tell Sheikh Hamad.
With regard to the content most of the texts are debt obligations on silver or barley. This text corpus expands our knowledge of the Old-Aramaic language at the end of the Assyrian empire (7th century BC) significantly; it is made accessible by glossaries and name indices.
Zielgruppe
Aramäistik, Semitistik, Altorientalistik (Assyriologie), Alte Geschichte, Vorderasiatische Archäologie