Lecture | Also on livestream
Aramaic in Babylon
- Date
- Monday 21 March 2022
- Time
- Location
- Royal Museum of Antiquities
Rapenburg 28
2311EW Leiden
Rieneke Sonnevelt of Leiden University will give an interesting insight (in Dutch) on the way in which two families in Babylon deal with a changing world during the Babylonian and Persian periods, in the 6th-5th century BC.
Clay tablets in the archives of two families from Babylon (6th-5th century BC) contain different types of marginal notes: graphic patterns, numbers, small drawings (doodles) and short Aramaic inscriptions. Why were the margins and blanks of clay tablets filled with these kinds of notes? And what does this practice teach us about the way these families handled their records?