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May 8, 2006
The Other Amarna Tablets
The Amarna letters are well known, but not so well known are other tablets from Amarna, tablets ranging from simple scribal exercises to literary and religious texts. There are twenty-nine such tablets. There's even an Egyptian/Akkadian bilingual vocabulary text (EA 368) with the Egyptian column written in the Akkadian cuneiform syllabary.
I'm working on a post (or two) about scribal training in the Levant in the Late Bronze Age and I've wanted to have easy access to these "Scholarly Tablets" for sometime. Way back in 1997, Shlomo Izre'el published them in a single and rather expensive (at least on a per page basis) volume called, The Amarna Scholarly Tablets. My very own copy arrived today. Many of these tablets are extremely fragmented others like "The myth of Adapa and the South Wind" (EA 356) are nearly complete and quite large. Where possible, Izre'el gives a transliteration, a translation and in an appendix of plates photographs and transcriptions. He also has a very complete bibliography.
It will take me a while to work my way through this but it is nice to have this wealth of material all in one place.
Posted by Duane Smith at May 8, 2006 1:26 PM | Read more on Archaeology |
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As I imagine you know, Shlomo has made coded version of his editions of these texts available online at
http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/semitic/ast.html
Posted by: Chuck Jones at May 10, 2006 12:29 AM
No, I didn't know that. Thanks. It could be helpful.
Posted by: Duane at May 10, 2006 6:56 AM
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