Notes on Lugale
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7683274 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M J Geller (0000-0002-2987-0603, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 215-223 |
| Publication date | 1985-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0041977x00033310 |
| OpenAlex | W2014230708 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
The method of editing Sumerian literary texts has been the subject of heated debate in recent years. It used to be that Sumerian text editions followed the practice of classical philologists, giving the text with an apparatus criticus of manuscript variants, but this method has an inherent flaw: the editor must either choose to use as his main text an ‘eclectic text’ combining the best readings of all the manuscripts, or select one manuscript as the best version. Moreover, although the apparatus may reveal manuscript variants, it often does not inform the reader of how much of any one line is preserved in any one text. Since Sumerian literary texts may show a considerable number of variants between duplicates, the Partitur format has been proposed and utilized, in which every line of every manuscript is given in full, although the system has been opposed on grounds of waste of space
Art · Line (geometry) · Linguistics · Literature · Philology · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Subject (documents) · Sumerian · World Wide Web · Ancient Near East History · Computer Science · History · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2020 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |