Graeco-Babyloniaca

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Bilingual tablet, Graeco-Babyloniaca, c. 50 BC to 50 AC (Harvard Semitic Museum)

The Graeco-Babyloniaca (singular: Graeco-Babyloniacum [1] ) are clay tablets written in the Sumerian or Akkadian languages using cuneiform on one side with transliterations in the Greek alphabet on the other.

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Quoting Edmond Sollberger:

They are obviously school texts written by some Greek student, or students, of Sumerian or Akkadian some time during the late second or early first centuries B.C. [2]

As worded by M. J. Geller, they indicate that both Babylonian languages "written in cuneiform characters were still legible in the Seleucid and Parthian periods in Mesopotamia". [3]

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References

  1. Cartlidge, Ben (2020). "Herodicus in Babylon: Greek Epigram and the Near East". Mnemosyne. 73 (6). doi: 10.1163/1568525X-12342750 .
  2. Sollberger, Edmond (1962). "Graeco-Babyloniaca". Iraq. 24 (1): 63–72. doi:10.2307/4199713. JSTOR   4199713. S2CID   249894854.
  3. Geller, M. J. (2012). "Graeco-Babyloniaca". The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. doi:10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah01077. ISBN   9781444338386.

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