A New Musical Term in Ancient Mesopotamian Music
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24075006 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aaron Shaffer, Aaron B Shaffer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iraq (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-0889 • E-ISSN: 2053-4744 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4200135 |
| OpenAlex | W4245211190 |
| Language | EN |
The fragment of Mesopotamian music lexicography published here was identified in the tablet collection of the Babylonian Section of the University Museum, Philadelphia, during a search for certain Sumerian literary fragments. It is offered to Oliver Gurney since it supplements the text of Nabnitu XXXII of whose major source he is the copyist and pioneer decipherer. Furthermore, the new musical term revealed by the text here may have a bearing on the treatise for the tuning of the Babylonian harp published by Professor Gurney in a previous number of this journal.
Ancient history · Art · Cuneiform · Lexicography · Linguistics · Literature · Musical · Section (typography) · Sumerian · Term (time) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Classics · Computer Science · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |