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« Écoute ma tablette ! » L’essor de la correspondance en Mésopotamie (2004–1595 av. n. è.)
Marine Béranger
2024
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In Mesopotamia, writing was invented and long mastered by a small group of individuals in service to the palace and temples. Archaeological and epigraphic evidence attests to an intensification and broadening use of writing in the first half of the second millennium BC, during the so-called Old Babylonian or Amorite period (2004–1595). The exchange of letters became so commonplace that scribes of that era considered writing to have been invented for remote communication. This book explores the rise of correspondence during this period. The first chapter contextualizes the letters, written in Akkadian at the time, within their social framework by profiling the individuals who corresponded in writing. The second chapter highlights, among the scribal exercises studied during the curriculum, those that taught reading and writing letters in Akkadian. The practice letters copied in school, in particular, are examined in detail for the first time. The third chapter focuses on the content of letters throughout the centuries, while the fourth chapter draws inspiration from pragmatics and textual linguistics to compare the degree of implicitness and complexity in around three hundred letters written between the 20th and 17th centuries. This research not only offers a pioneering synthesis of knowledge gathered over the past 130 years on a corpus of over 7,000 Old Babylonian letters but also provides a fresh and innovative exploration into the context, content, and language of these letters.
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Keywords
- Akkadian language
- Assyriology
- Cuneiform
- Digital humanities
- Epistolography
- Gender Studies
- history of writing
- Iraq
- Letter writing
- Literacy
- Mari Tell Hariri
- Mesopotamia
- Old Babylonian period
- pragmatics
- Royal archives
- Scribal education
- syria
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
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