The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
The Standard Professions List is often taken as a classic example of Sumerian list science, although it differs from the other l ...
had existed in the system. To what meaningful end would they have indulged in extended flights of fancy, and would such fancies ...
Names and Professions List, found in several versions, and of course various other thematic lists, as well as graphically ordere ...
Early Dynastic scribes seem to have been considered, maybe even by themselves, as a type of craftsman, like various other profes ...
a situation whereby writing and written traditions travel between sites via scribes rather than just tablets, perhaps through in ...
the Ur III kings, and Shulgi in particular, established a large cadre of bureaucrats trained in a common system of values. We se ...
whether the influence of the family might not have been a more important factor in deciding which of various candidates would ge ...
Sumerian, although there are indications of Akkadian in the ordering of entries. And the scribe was trained to translate back an ...
Daniels, P., 1992. The syllabic origin of writing and the segmental origin of the alphabet. In P. Downing, S. Lima and M. Noonan ...
CHAPTER FIFTEEN CALENDARS AND COUNTING Tonia Sharlach The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. (L. P ...
The reasons for the base 60 , or sexagesimal, system are now lost in the mists of time. Boyer suggests that one possible reason ...
Regardless of their origin, the basic Sumerian cardinal numbers are well known. One asˇor dilior disˇ Tw o min Three esˇ 5 Four ...
measuring grain in the third millennium was by the gur system, that is, using a unit known as the gur. The gurwas a large unit, ...
Mathematics in the third millennium To what extent the mathematical advances attested in Old Babylonian and Seleucid documents e ...
numbers.... Accuracy in approximations was relatively easy for the Babylonians to achieve with their fractional notation, the be ...
Another Old Babylonian school text similarly stresses how mathematical knowledge and numeracy were part of a well-rounded educat ...
Since we do not know the order of the various year names, instead of numbering them, we assign these year names letters. Naming ...
Month names We subdivide the year into twelve months. We begin our year in winter and use traditional month names, many handed d ...
from one place to the next, depending on whether a “leap” month was being added in that region or not (on leap months, see below ...
calendrical aberrations like Shulgi’s forty-fourth year, which appears to have had a total of nineteen months, created by repeat ...
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