Babylonian Collection

Babylonian Collection

Babylonian Collection (auch Yale Babylonian Collection) ist die Bezeichnung der umfassendsten Sammlung von Keilschrifttexten, die an der Yale University aufbewahrt werden. Die Babylonian Collection beinhaltet etwa 45.000 kategoriserte Einträge; unter anderem Artefakte, Dichtungen, Verwaltungsdokumente und Omentexte aus dem Zeitraum zwischen 3000 v. Chr. und der frühen christlichen Zeit.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Einteilungen

Die Keilschrifttexte der Babylonian Collection ist in sechs Gruppen unterteilt:

  • GCC: Goucher College Collection, gegründet von Raymond Dougherty
  • MLC: Morgan Library Collection (früher Morgan Library New York), gegründet von A.T. Clay
  • NBC: Nies Babylonian Collection, gegründet von James B. Nies
  • NCBS/NCBT: Newell Collection of Babylonian Seals und Newell Collection of Babylonian Tablets
  • RBC: Rosen Babylonian Collection, gegründet von Jonathan Rosen
  • YBC: Yale Babylonian Collection, gegründet 1909 von A.T. Clay

Schriften

Die publizierten Texte sind unter anderem in sieben Schriftenreihen erschienen:

  • BIN: Babylonian Inscriptions of James B. Nies
  • BRM: Babylonian Records in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan
  • GCCI: Goucher College Cuneiform Inscriptions
  • TBC: Texts from the Babylonian Collection
  • YNER: Yale Near Eastern Researches
  • YOS/YOSBT: Yale Oriental Series
  • YOSR: Yale Oriental Series, Researches

Literatur

  • Richard Anthony Parker, Waldo H. Dubberstein: Babylonian Chronology 626 BC – AD 75. Brown University Press, Rhode Island 1956

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