Libraries Before Alexandria: Ancient Near Eastern Traditions

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2019
Author
Editor: Kim Ryholt
Editor: Gojko Barjamovic
Language
English
Number of Pages
491 pp.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
City
Oxford, England
Region
Middle East
Chronological Period
Ancient Period (pre 500)
ISBN
9780199655359
Annotation

Contents: 

  • Libraries before Alexandria / Kim Ryholt, Gojko Barjamovic
  • The rise of libraries in western Asia, c.2600-2300 BCE / Kamran Vincent Zand
  • Libraries in ancient Egypt, c.2600-1600 BCE / R.B. Parkinson
  • Archives and libraries in the old Babylonian period, c.1900-1600 BCE / Paul Delnero
  • The tablet collections of the Hittite state, c.1650-1080 BCE / Paola Dardano
  • Libraries in Syria and the Levant in the late Bronze age, c.1450-1100 BCE / Matthew Rutz
  • Libraries in ancient Egypt, c.1600-800 BCE / Fredrik Hagen
  • Scholarly tablet collections in first-millennium Assyria and Babylonia, c.700-200 BCE / Eleanor Robson,Kathryn Stevens
  • Assurbanipal's library: an overview /; Irving Finkel
  • Libraries from late period and Graeco-Roman Egypt, c.800 BCE-250 CE / Kim Ryholt
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