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Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea

• Germany
• Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg
• Collection
• Running

The systematic research into the Ethiopian manuscript culture is the aim of the long-term project “Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung” (“Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea”). Ethiopia and Eritrea are situated, from the perspective of cultural history, both at the periphery of the so-called Christian Orient and in the…

AGATE-ID: PR14

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Edition literarischer Keilschrifttexte aus Assur

• Germany
• Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
• Collection
• Running

For some 3,500 years (34th century BC to 1st century AD), cuneiform served to document, preserve and disseminate intellectual content. The capacity for great cultural and political achievement found among the empires of the Near East was closely bound to the development and use of this medium.

Characteristic to the cultures of the ancient Near East is thus not in the least the extraordinary…

AGATE-ID: PR2

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