Keeping Alive Dead Knowledge
Middle Assyrian Glass Recipes in the Yale Babylonian Collection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6078482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shiyanthi Thavapalan (0009-0001-1530-0079, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Pages | 135-178 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Cuneiform Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0256 • E-ISSN: 2325-6737 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/714658 |
| OpenAlex | W3180048494 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Although they describe Bronze Age technologies and techniques, the Akkadian glassmaking texts are primarily known through later copies from Ashurbanipal’s libraries. The first portion of this paper provides editions of three fragments of previously unknown glass texts from the Middle Assyrian period and examines how and why they came to be written down. The second portion discusses metaphors concerning kinship and bodily experience that explain the relationship between the glassmaker in Mesopotamia, his tools, and his creative process. It is argued here that only by embracing the entire context of the craft process—this includes the behaviors chosen during manufacture as well as the allusions made to social relationships through language, performance, and materials—can we begin to appreciate how knowledge about technologies was transmitted
Aesthetics · Akkadian · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Bronze · Context (archaeology · Craft · Kinship · Literature · Mesopotamia · Period (music · Sociology · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History
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