WP4: Dossiers in the Early Eanna Archive

Description

This work package focuses on texts written in the time span between the final years of Assyrian rule over Babylonia and the mid-reign of Nebuchadnezzar. Tasks will be assembling the Files, reconstructing the pertinent Dossiers and Bureaus and investigating the hypothesis that there occurred in fact a break in archival continuity around Nebuchadnezzar’s 20th year that warrants the distinction between the Early and the Late Eanna Archive. We will also try and substantiate the causality underlying the archival break (following the hypothesis setout in Jursa and Gordin 2018). For this pupose, a prosopographically-oriented MA thesis on temple personnel working outside the city during the period covered by the Early Eanna Archive will be written

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Vienna

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