book chapter
The scribe in Babylonian society
Everyday life in Babylonia and Assyria • London • Published In 1965 • Pages: 72-98
By: Saggs, H. W. F..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is an examination the role, education, and practices of Mesopotamian scribes, including knowledge of cuneiform writing, mathematics, and myths.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- Writing
- Verbal arts
- Visual arts
- Spirits and gods
- Numeration
- Mathematics
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Babylonians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Linguist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 3000–539 BC
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iraq
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] H. W. F. Saggs. Drawings by Helen Nixon Fairfield
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 65002284
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Babylonia