Knowledge and rhetoric in medical commentary

• Verfasst von: Wee, John Z. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Knowledge and rhetoric in medical commentary
• Titelzusatz: ancient Mesopotamian commentaries on a handbook of medical diagnosis (Sa-gig)
• Verf.angabe: by John Z. Wee
• Verlagsort: Leiden ; Boston
• Verlag: Brill
• E-Jahr: 2019
• Jahr: [2019]
• Umfang: XXXIX, 493 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Cuneiform monographs ; volume 49/1
• ISBN: 978-90-04-41754-0
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Z Wee, John: Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary. - Boston : BRILL, 2019. - 1 online resource (533 pages)
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Wee, John Z.: Knowledge and rhetoric in medical commentary. - Leiden : Brill, 2019. - 1 Online-Ressource (XXXIX, 493 Seiten)
• K10plus-PPN: 1692996495

Abstract

"In Mittani Palaeography, Zenobia Homan analyses cuneiform writing from the Late Bronze Age Mittani state, which was situated in the region between modern Aleppo, Erbil and Diyarbakır. The ancient communication network reveals a story of local scribal tradition blended with regional adaptation and international political change, reflecting the ways in which written knowledge travelled within the cuneiform culture of the Middle East. Mittani signs, their forms, and variants, are described and defined in detail utilising a large digital database and discussed in relation to other regional corpora (Assyro-Mittanian, Middle Assyrian, Nuzi and Tigunanum among others). The collected data indicate that Mittanian was comparatively standardised - an innovation for the period - signifying the existence of a centralised system of scribal training."