Back to School in Babylonia

edited by Susanne Paulus

Book cover: Back to School in Babylonia

Extent: 457 pages

Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures

Subjects: Ancient Near East

Series: ISAC Museum Publications

Series volume number: 1

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2023)

ISBN: 9781614910985

Price: $39.95

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PDF (Published)

(September 2023)

ISBN: 9781614910992

Price: $32.00

This volume—the companion book to the special exhibition Back to School in Babylonia of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago—explores education in the Old Babylonian period through the lens of House F in Nippur, excavated jointly by the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania in the early 1950s and widely believed to have been a scribal school. The book’s twenty essays offer a state-of-the-art synthesis of research on the history of House F and the educational curriculum documented on the many tablets discovered there, while the catalog’s five chapters present the 126 objects included in the exhibition, the vast majority of them cuneiform tablets.

  • Edited by Susanne Paulus