Appendix B: Scholars of first-millennium Babylonia

This section of the site gives a prosopography of all scholars known to me from first-millennium Babylonia. It was originally designed as an appendix to Ancient Knowledge Networks but given the potential for updates, and for links to publications and sources, it is more suited to online publication.

Still to do: links to relevant online texts. See Table B8 for a completed example.

Suggestions, additions and corrections are very welcome and, if used, will be acknowledged here. Please email akno at oracc dot org to contribute.

Table B1: Scholars under Babylonian royal patronage in the late second and early first millennium
Table B2: scholars in archival documents from the long sixth century
Table B3: āšipus in colophons of Neo-Babylonian scholarly tablets
Table B4: bārûs in colophons of Neo-Babylonian scholarly tablets
Table B5: kalûs in colophons of Neo-Babylonian scholarly tablets
Table B6: Scholars of Late Babylonian Babylon
Table B7: Scholars of Late Babylonian Borsippa, Der, Kutha and Nippur
Table B8: Scholars of the Šangu-Ninurta family and their associates in Late Achaemenid Uruk
Table B9: Scholars of the Ekur-zakir family and their associates in Early Hellenistic Uruk
Table B10: Other scholars and copyists attested in the āšipus' house in Late Achaemenid and Early Hellenistic Uruk
Table B11: āšipus of Seleucid Uruk
Table B12: kalûs of Seleucid Uruk
Table B13: Other scholarly writers of Seleucid Uruk

Content last modified on 27 Dec 2019.

Eleanor Robson

Eleanor Robson, 'Appendix B: Scholars of first-millennium Babylonia', Ancient Knowledge Networks online, Eleanor Robson, 2019 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/cams/akno/babylonianscholars/]