Collecting Knowledge in the Ancient World: Assurbanipal’s Library in Context

Nineveh (now in present-day Mosul, Iraq) was the Assyrian empire’s last capital and home to one of the earliest large-scale collections of ancient literature: Assurbanipal’s library. Remembered in Greek tradition as Sardanapalus, this 7th-century king is credited with amassing thousands of clay tablets and wooden writing boards in a state sponsored institution that included myths, hymns, rituals, medical and divinatory lore, and ancient dictionaries. This lecture will explore the contents and significance of Assurbanipal’s library, looking in a comparative way at its antecedents and heirs across the ancient world, with a particular focus on the cuneiform tablet collections scattered across the ancient Near East.

Podrobnosti události

Začátek události
2.4.2019 9:10 - 10:45
Místo konání
Celetná 20, Praha 1, místnost C102
Webové stránky
https://cegu.ff.cuni.cz/cs/2019/03/05/pozvanka-na-prednasky-profesora-matthewa-rutze/
Organizátor
Český egyptologický ústav FF UK
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