Materiality of Writing in Early Mesopotamia.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Zählmarken, Zeichenträger und Siegelpraxis. Einige Bemerkungen zu vor- und frühschriftlichen Verwaltungshilfen in frühsumerischer Zeit -- Private Commemorative Inscriptions of the Early Dynastic and Sargonic Periods: Some Considerations -- The Interplay of Material, Text, and Iconography in Some of the Oldest "Legal" Documents -- Object, Images, and Text: Remarks on Two "Intercultural Style" Vessels from Nippur -- Augensteine im 3. und frühen 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr.: Eine Funktionsanalyse -- Observations on Diplomatics, Tablet Layout and Cultural Evolution of the Early Third Millennium: The Archaic Texts from Ur -- Materiality, Writing, and Context in the Inana Temple at Nippur: The Dedicatory Objects from Level VIIB -- Die Paläographie der lexikalischen Texte aus Ebla: Einige erste Betrachtungen -- Materiality and Presence of the Anitta Text in Original and Secondary Context. Considerations on the Original Nature of the Proclamation of Anitta (CTH 1) and Its Transmission as Part of Hittite Traditional Literature -- Die „Geierstele" als luhmannsches Medium zur Legitimation des königlichen Herrschaftsanspruchs -- Deconstructing Textuality, Reconstructing Materiality -- From Clay to Stone: Material Practices and Writing in Third Millennium Mesopotamia -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

The series Material Text Cultures is the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections and monographs dedicated to the Collaborative Research Center's main focus of research - that is, the materiality and presence of writing in non-typographic societies.

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