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ScriPTS · Scribal Performance and Textual Standardization in Mesopotamian Lexical Lists

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Период: 2022-09-01 → 2024-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 195 915 €
Участници: 2
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Накратко на български

Месопотамските лексикални списъци, като например „Силлабарий B“, разкриват как писците са учили клинописните знаци и езиците шумерски и аккадски. Анализът им помага да се разбере как е била организирана образователната система в Бабилония и как тя се сравнява с египетската.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Scribal Performance and Textual Standardization in Mesopotamian Lexical Lists

The ScriPTS research project, hosted at the CNRS and within the UMR 7041 joint research unit, challenged models of unified culture and canonization of scholarly texts in the transmission of lexical lists, essential to the training of scribes during the first millennium BC. The main objective was to analyse how writing practices within local communities influenced the variation and stability of lexical lists, which were fundamental to learning the cuneiform writing system and the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. The project focused on the transmission of 'Syllabary B', as it provides equivalences between characters, indicating their Akkadian and Sumerian readings. The project had two concrete objectives: 1) to establish the distribution of texts according to their archaeological context, but also according to scribal circles and institutions, in order to define specific repertoires within textual communities; 2) to define transmission within these scribal communities in terms of dynamic scribal practices, on the basis of a close reading of the interaction between the form, format and content of a subset of around 147 cuneiform tablets. The results showed a regional diversity in scientific and intellectual life, while revealing communities of practice among scribes. Finally, it was possible to reconstruct the Babylonian scribal curriculum, including the learning of signs, lists of deities, literary texts and mathematical exercises, while drawing parallels with education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The project challenges prevalent models of cultural unity and canonization in the transmission of scholarly texts during the last phases of Mesopotamian cuneiform writing in the 1st millennium BCE by analyzing the transmission of the so-called lexical lists, one of the most characteristic genres of the Mesopotamian sciences and foundational to scribal education. Building on own prior research on literary standardization and geographies in 2nd–1st millennium Mesopotamia, the project has two concrete aims: 1) to establish the distribution of texts across archaeological contexts, scribal circles, and institutions in order to define specific repertoires within textual communities; and 2) to define the transmission within these communities in terms of dynamic scribal practices, based on close readings of the interplay of form, format, and content of a subset of ca. 147 cuneiform tablets. A major aspect of the project is the digitalization of the sources in collaboration with two databases: Achemenet (CNRS/Nanterre) and the Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts (University of California at Berkeley). Training, including a 3-month secondment as visiting fellow in Berkeley, will focus on the development, design, and implementation of large-scale, open-access digitalized textual corpora and on data standards. The project will be hosted at the CNRS in Nanterre and supervised by Prof. Cécile Michel, an expert on Mesopotamian literacy and sciences and principle investigator of a major research cluster on manuscript cultures. Integration into the team of the ArScAn-HAROC will provide support for the project's development and an ideal interdisciplinary research environment for comparative analysis. Communication measures are designed not only for a scholarly audience, but to communicate the history of cuneiform writing and Mesopotamian education to a wider international audience, including measures addressed to stakeholders in the Near and Middle East.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · ParisКоординаторФранция
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