What is it about?
The article tries to give easy access to Babylonian sources and how they are treated on the field of Assyriology. It gives an overview of written sources in Late Babylonian from archives and libraries in Babylonia on the Thespeid, Achaemenid and Persian periods and introduces terminology associated with evaluating and handling these sources. It is aimed at students of Assyriology and related subjects as well as at researchers from other fields trying to familiarise themselves with this material steming from private and institutional contexts. The publication also provides ample references for further study.
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Why is it important?
The article gives an overview of the material that is suitable for people with little to no prior knowledge of these sources and how they are treated in Assyriology. It aims at providing easy access to the rich material from Babylonia and encourage research on it, as the vast amount of texts is still nowhere near full publication and, therefore, analysis, and is of interest in itself, but also for other disciplins.
Perspectives
Every discipline has its own set of views, or even unwritten set of rules, which for an outsider or student may not be easy to understand at first glance. This publication aims at making the material in question easily accessible and hopes to encourage people from different disciplines to dive into these rich sources and to access them with their own methods and perspectives. It also hopes to encourage students of Assyriology and related fields to work with this material, as it offers a large variety of texts and potential for future research.
Martina Schmidl
University of Vienna
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This page is a summary of: Babylonische Quellen, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-47152-1_29.
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