NMC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Shamhat, Atra-Hasis, Entrust
23 Jan 2018
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School tablet: old babylonian period, early 2nd millennium bc. Curriculum: shaping the appropriate tablet, writing techniques, sumerian nouns, sign lists and mathematics, sumerian language. Scribal school in ob nippur: house f, important to sumerians. Babylonian version, standard babylonian version (used only for literary, not a spoken language) Plot of old babylonian version is similar to standard version except for flood myth, battle with bull of heaven, views on the netherworld. Extensive spread of the epic, tablets found in other languages like hittite and hurrian, tablets were found in meggido, hittite land, syria. Standard babylonian version: comes from assyria: assurbanipal"s library, and private libraries in assur and huzirina (in the north, comes from babylonia: babylon and uruk (in the south, standard babylonian is a literary not spoken dialect of akkadian. Authorship: attributed in mesopotamian tradition to the scholar sin-leqe-unninni, he was more like an editor.
