Cultural Imports and Local Products in the Commentaries from Uruk. The Case of the Gimil-Sîn Family

Uri Gabbay; Enrique Jiménez

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Cultural Imports and Local Products in the Commentaries from Uruk. The Case of the Gimil-Sîn Family

Uri Gabbay^*, Enrique Jiménez

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Institute of Archaeology

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One of the main repositories of Mesopotamian text commentaries are the libraries of the city of Uruk, which have yielded approximately ninety tablets and fragments that contain texts of this genre. While some of the Uruk commentaries seem to have been composed locally, others reflect traditions that were imported to Uruk from other cities. This article studies cultural imports in Uruk commentaries, especially those that originated in the city of Nippur. It will place particular emphasis on the case of the Gimil-Sîn family, a family of scholars from Nippur. Most of the tablets belonging to this family stem from Uruk, but they have hitherto escaped attention due to the cryptographic fashion in which their colophons are written.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	53-88
Number of pages	36
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04176-2_2
State	Published - 2019

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Name	Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter
Volume	2
ISSN (Print)	2662-9933
ISSN (Electronic)	2662-9941

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