The Materialisation of Intellectual Order. Means of Depicting Learned Knowledge on Clay Tablets (B01)

• Subject Area: Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
• Term: from 2011 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 178035969

The project engages with the regionally and contextually dependant compositional variance of scholarly texts on clay tablets. In the third research phase, narrative and poetic texts will serve as the focus of attention. The materiality of Babylonian literature possesses enormous potential for acquiring insights regarding the question of a praxeologically oriented codicology, and, furthermore, a codicologically oriented genre criticism. Taking as a point of departure the concrete documentary transmission, for a suitable selection of compositions the histories of their adoption and interpretation will be written. Along with the findings from the two prior phases of research, the results of these studies will be developed into a codicology of Mesopotamian scholarly texts.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 933: Material Text Cultures. Materiality and Presence of Writing in Non-Typographic Societies
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Stefan M. Maul