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Scribal Training in Old Babylonian Susa
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This chapter gives an overview of the curricular approach of scribal education as attested in the school tablets found in Susa. The school tablets from Susa are a case study for an education in a multicultural social context. The influence of the Mesopotamian school system on the scribal education in Susa seems to have been so significant that Elamite played almost no role in the scholastic context investigated here. The sequence of the stages of scribal education is clearly traceable, but the curricular material itself shows striking differences. It reveals that the Mesopotamian curriculum was not just blindly adopted but that it underwent a significant adjustment to fit the linguistic environment of Susa. The study of the educational corpus from Susa uncovered many, but not all features of the curriculum and process of scribal education at Susa. Keywords:educational corpus; Elamite; Mesopotamian curriculum; scribal education; Susa
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“All these prove beyond doubt that Susa was an integral part of Mesopotamian writing culture .”
From The Susa Funerary Texts: A New Edition and Re-Evaluation and the Question of Psychostasia in Ancient Mesopotamia (2019) · cites this paper as Malayeri 2013: 368
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“Only two Elamite deities are attested in this corpus: Inšušinak and d Tu-zi .”
From The Susa Funerary Texts: A New Edition and Re-Evaluation and the Question of Psychostasia in Ancient Mesopotamia (2019) · cites this paper as Malayeri 2013: 372
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“Interestingly, as shown by Malayeri (2013: 372), most of the divine names in the Susa school tablets are Sumerian, with a preponderance of deities from Lagaš and Ur .”
From The Susa Funerary Texts: A New Edition and Re-Evaluation and the Question of Psychostasia in Ancient Mesopotamia (2019) · cites this paper as Malayeri 2013: 372
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- Authors
- Malayeri, M.
- Corresponding author
- Malayeri, Mehrnoush
- Venue
- Susa and Elam. Archaeological, Philological, Historical and Geographical Perspectives
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Published
- 2013-01-01
- Pages
- 365-375
- OpenAlex
- W2500443981
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2022: 18 · 2019: 1
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- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- BRILL eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Ancient Near East History
- Social Sciences › Education › Historical Education Studies Worldwide
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
- Keywords
- scribal training, Old Babylonian period, Susa, Elamite language, curriculum adaptation, scribal schools
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