Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der neuassyrischen Zeit

Teil 1: Die Levante

von Ariel M. Bagg

476 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The present work is the last contribution to the edition in several volumes „Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes“ (RGTC), published within the series „Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients“ (TAVO). Thirteen volumes have been already published in this edition RGTC and they became − along with the corresponding TAVO-historical maps − an important research tool in the field of the historical geography of the Ancient Near East.
This volume presents the place names from the Neo-Assyrian period in two parts. The first volume (RGTC 7/1) comprises the toponyms from the Levant. The second volume (RGTC 7/2), now in preparation, includes the place names from the remaining regions, namely the northern, southern and eastern regions, as well as from Egypt and the Assyrian heartland.

The arrangement of the book follows earlier volumes of the series. The material comprises all the published, non-literary sources from the Neo-Assyrian period, namely royal inscriptions, letters, legal and administrative texts, treaties, royal grant and decrees, astrological reports, and historiographical texts. Following RGTC Vol. 5 all the texts after 934 BC have been considered. The alphabetical collection of place names is divided as usual in the categories „place names“ and „watercourses“. The main criterion for the arrangement of the attestations are the different spellings. Within the same spelling the arrangement of the attestations follows chronological and typological criteria. The attestations are followed by a commentary concerning the identification of the place name with a discussion of the relevant secondary literature. Since the toponyms from the Levant have been intensive discussed in assyriological works as well as in works concerning the Old Testament, the earlier identification proposals demand a more extended treatment than in earlier RGTC-volumes. Comprehensive indices, among them a register of modern place names as well as a register of the mentioned Old-Aramaic, Biblical, Classical, Luwian, and Phoenician toponyms, complete the book. An enclosed map shows most of the identified places. A comprehensive, historic-geographic study of the presented material, including many historical maps, will be published separately.

• Reihe: Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients (TAVO)
• ISBN: 9783895005862
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.03.2008
• Genre: Geschichte/Altertum
• Verlag: Reichert, L