"I was not warm in the cold": another old babylonian proverbial collection
BM 108868, an unpublished Old Babylonian tablet containing a collection of moral and existential sayings is edited here for the first time, accompanied by a commentary, photos and a hand-copy. With this discovery, the existence of a solid 2nd millennium tradition of monolingual Akkadian proverbial s...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2019
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Iraq
Year: 2019, Volume: 81, Pages: 241-245 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Babylon
/ Text
/ Monolingualism
/ Proverb
/ Akkadian language
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IxTheo Classification: | TB Antiquity |
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Summary: | BM 108868, an unpublished Old Babylonian tablet containing a collection of moral and existential sayings is edited here for the first time, accompanied by a commentary, photos and a hand-copy. With this discovery, the existence of a solid 2nd millennium tradition of monolingual Akkadian proverbial sayings is established. |
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ISSN: | 2053-4744 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Iraq
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/irq.2019.13 |