The Making of a Scribe: Errors, Mistakes and Rounding Numbers in the Old Babylonian Kingdom of Larsa 9783030359515, 9783030359508, 3030359514

The Making of a Scribe: Errors, Mistakes and Rounding Numbers in the Old Babylonian Kingdom of Larsa (Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter, 4) [1st ed. 2020] 9783030359508, 9783030359515, 3030359506

This book presents a novel methodology to study economic texts. The author investigates discrepancies in these writings

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From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe: Literary and Scholarly Texts from the Old Babylonian Period 9781646020997

This volume presents first editions of a variety of cuneiform tablets from the Old Babylonian period belonging to the co

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The Finger of the Scribe

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Miscommunications: Errors, Mistakes, Media 9781501363856, 9781501363825, 9781501363832

What happens when communication breaks down? Is it the condition for mistakes and errors that is characteristic of digit

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Miscommunications: Errors, Mistakes, Media 1501363824, 9781501363825

What happens when communication breaks down? Is it the condition for mistakes and errors that is characteristic of digit

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The Revolt of the Scribe in Modern Italian Literature 9781442686175

The Revolt of the Scribe in Modern Italian Literature offers a perceptive re-assessment of Italian literary culture, foc

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Dating the Tombs of the Egyptian Old Kingdom 9781905739820

The decorated tombs of the Egyptian Old Kingdom offer detailed knowledge of a society that in all probability was the fi

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The Material and Ideological Base of the Old Babylonian State : History, Economy, and Politics 9781498559881, 9781498559874

This book describes and analyzes the economic and administrative structure as well as the ideological background of the

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Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures 9780674979185

Number concepts are a human invention developed and refined over millennia. They allow us to grasp quantities precisely:

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Conditional Structures in Mesopotamian Old Babylonian 9781575066806

This volume examines conditional structures in Old Babylonian from a linguistic point of view, drawing on a corpus of le

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