Historiography, ancient Near East
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23665587 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elena Devecchi (0000-0002-3860-4163, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah01089 |
| OpenAlex | W1567872301 |
| ISBN | 9781444338386 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Ancient Near Eastern civilizations had no words for history , nor were there historians comparable to a Herodotus or a Thucydides with their methods and perspectives. Nonetheless, they wrote about the past in many genres of texts that are regarded by modern scholars as historiographic compositions. These are attested from the second half of the third millennium until the demise of cuneiform culture in the late first millennium bce and were inscribed on a number of media, such as clay tablets, cones, cylinders, prisms, bricks, stone slabs, stelae, statues, and rock reliefs.
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Cuneiform · Demise · Extant taxon · Geometry · Historiography · Inscribed figure · Literature · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |