Vavilonskie pistsy. (= "Babylonian Scribes in the First Millenium B.C." = "Babylonische Schreiber im ersten Jahrtausend v.u.Z.").

Gutes Ex.; Einband minimal berieben; Seiten etwas gebr�t. - Russisch mit engl. Inhaltsverz. + Zusammenfassung. - Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Dr. Wolfram Kleiss, langj�igem Direktor des Deutschen Arch�ogischen Instituts Teheran. Mit handschriftlicher Widmung durch den Autor an Wolfram Kleiss auf separat beiligendem Zettel. Vereinzelte handschriftliche Korrekturen. Text russisch und babylonisch, mit englischer Zusammenfassung. // INHALT : Preface. . -- Chapter I. Scribal Terminology. -- 1. Scribes, Interpreters and Scholars. -- 2. Materials for Writing. -- 3. Types of Documents. -- 4. Schools, Archives and Libraries. -- Chapter II. Scribal Art. -- Texts. -- Chapter III. Scribes as Interpreters. -- Texts. -- Chapter IV. State Scribes. -- Texts. -- C h a p t" r V. Temple Scribes. -- Texts. -- Chapter VI. Nadinu, a Scribe of the Temple Eanna. -- Chapter VII. Scribes of Private Legal Transactions. -- Texts. -- Chapter VIII. Scribes as Business Men. -- 1. Nabu-ahhe-iddin, Head of the House of Egibi. -- 2. Itti-Marduk-balatu. Descendant of Egibi. -- 3. Marduk-nasir-apli, Head of the House of Egibi. -- 4. Tabiya, Son of Nabu-apla-iddina, Descendant of Sln-ili -- Conclusion. -- Notes. -- Supplement I. Selected Documents in Transliteration. -- Supplement II. Calender and Measures. -- Bibliography (Sources and Literature). -- Index of Transliterated and Translated Texts. -- Index of Translated Texts (without Transliteration). -- General Index of Sources Used (Babylonian, Neo-Assyrian, Aramaic, Biblical, Demotic, Elamite and Greek Texts). -- Summary. -- Addenda. // Until the late Middle Ages we have from no country so many and so various records as we have from ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest cuneiform documents were written at the dawn of civilization, and the latest of them belong to the first century A. D. Cuneiform literature, which had existed for several millennia, was created by many generations of scribes. To use A. Lea Oppenheim's words, the scribe was the central figure of cuneiform civilization. Kings, temples and private persons depended on the service of scribes. But our information about the social position of the Mesopotamian scribe, his activity as bureaucrat and in the service of the community for the recording of contracts is very scanty. We do not have any direct data on the economic situation and social origin of scribes. Also, we do not know if the scribal profession was the chief source of income or if the scribes combined their craft with handicraft, tilling of land and so on. However, one may elucidate these questions though our information is not obvious at first sight. Data on scribes are to be collected little by little from many thousand records. In the Neo-Bobylonian period, almost always the personal names as well as the patronymics of scribes are indicated in the documents compiled by a scribe. And in other documents the same persons are mentioned as contracting parties, witnesses and so on. This makes it possible to compare the various sources with each other and get valuable and in some cases quite unexpected information on the life and activity of the scribes. Unfortunately, it was impossible to give as a supplement to this book the full prosopography of the Babylonian scribes in the first millennium B. C. since such a prosopography, including personal names and patronymics of more than 3000 scribes and with references to the records, would require several hundred pages. (S. 235)

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