A School Tablet in the Shape of a Five-Sided Prism in Adana Museum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21486063 |
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| Authors | Rukiye Akdoğan (0000-0003-0158-9577, Çukurova Üniversitesi , Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi , Arkeoloji Bölümü, Adana , Turkey Turkey, corresponding author), Tülay Ünlü (Adana Arkeoloji Müzesi, Adana, Turkey Turkey), Mark Weeden (0000-0002-5408-3388, University College London , Department of Greek and Latin, Gordon House , Gordon Street , London , UK United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-08 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Altorientalische Forschungen (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0232-8461 • E-ISSN: 2196-6761 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/aofo-2022-0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4286647975 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
In 2002 a 5-sided prism with a handle inscribed with cuneiform was acquired by Adana Museum by means of confiscation, but it is thought to be from Osmaniye-Toprakkale in the Adana province of south-central Turkey. The prism has a grey slip and a handle-like portion on its top with a hole through it, whereby it could have been used as an amulet or at least somehow displayed. The text on the prism consists of the first 54 lines of a basic cuneiform exercise for students, known as “Syllable Alphabet A”. This prism school-tablet, which is written in Babylonian script, is probably to be dated to the first half of the 2 nd millennium BC, although a date later in the 2 nd millennium cannot be excluded. The article presents the object and its text, considers its possible use-function, as well as raising the question of possible connections with Old Babylonian traders’ networks, such as evidenced at Tilmen Höyük on the other side of the Amanus mountains
Alphabet · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Cuneiform · Geometry · Inscribed figure · Linguistics · Optics · Physics · Prism · Ancient Near East History · Families in Therapy and Culture · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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