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Author

Robson, Eleanor, author.

Title Ancient knowledge networks : a social geography of cuneiform scholarship in first-millennium Assyria and Babylonia / Eleanor Robson.

Publication Info.

London : UCL Press, 2019.

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Description	1 online resource : illustrations
	text txt rdacontent
	computer c rdamedia
	online resource cr rdacarrier
Note	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 15, 2019).
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Bibliographical abbreviations; Museum and excavation sigla; Dating conventions; Editorial conventions; 1. Introduction; 2. From 'Ashurbanipal's Library' and the 'stream of tradition' to new approaches to cuneiform scholarship; 3. Trust in Nabu? Assyrian royal attitudes to court scholarship; 4. The writing-board was at my house: Scholarly and textual mobility in seventh-century Assyria; 5. Grasping the righteous sceptre: Nabu, scholarship and the kings of Babylonia
	6. At the gate of Eanna: Babylonian scholarly spaces before and after the early fifth century7. Conclusions: Towards a social geography of cuneiform scholarship; Bibliography; Index
Summary	Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanings are shaped by the peoples who use it.
Language	English.
Subject	Learning and scholarship -- Assyria -- History.
	Learning and scholarship -- Iraq -- Babylonia -- History.
	Assyria -- Intellectual life.
	Babylonia -- Intellectual life.
	Savoir et érudition -- Assyrie -- Histoire.
	Savoir et érudition -- Irak -- Babylonie -- Histoire.
	Middle & Near Eastern archaeology.
	Ancient history: to c 500 CE.
	Middle East.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
	Intellectual life
	Learning and scholarship
	Middle East -- Assyria
	Middle East -- Babylonia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvCWG6xj8PrpgQbdmHwG3
Indexed Term	history
	archaeology
	Cuneiform
	Assyria
Genre/Form	History
In:	Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
	OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Other Form:	Print version: Robson, Eleanor. Ancient knowledge networks. London : UCL Press, 2019 1787355969 9781787355965 (OCoLC)1104402730
ISBN	9781787355972 (electronic bk.)
	1787355977 (electronic bk.)
	9781787355941 (electronic bk.)
	1787355942 (electronic bk.)
	1787355950
	9781787355958
	9781787355989 (mobi)
	1787355985
	9781787355958
	1787355969
	9781787355965
	9781787355641 (PDF)
Standard No.	AU@ 000066229277
	UKMGB 019614359
	AU@ 000074160149