Graeco-Babyloniaca
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.
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
References
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- S2CID 249894854.
- ISBN 9781444338386.
Further reading
- Maul, Stefan. "Graeco-Babyloniaca". Brill's New Pauly. .
- Stevens, Kathryn (2019). Between Greece and Babylonia : Hellenistic intellectual history in cross-cultural perspective. Cambridge. pp. 120–143. ISBN 9781108303552.)
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