Dieser Band enthält die Beiträge des Workshops „Materialität des Schreibprozesses“, der am 29. April 2013 am Institut für Altorientalistik in Berlin stattfand. Fragen der Materialität von Keilschriftartefakten sind in den letzten Jahren wieder stärker in den Blick der Forschung gerückt. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes thematisieren an konkreten Beispielen primäre Aspekte der Erstellung von Textdokumenten, die Spuren, die Gebrauch bzw. Out-of-use im Befund hinterlassen, sowie zugehörige methodische und analytische Ansätze.
Cuneiform studies have, in recent years, paid more and more attention to the materiality of inscribed objects. Such was the case at a workshop on the materiality of the writing process which took place on 29 April 2013 at the Freie Universität Berlin. The proceedings of the workshop ‘Keilschriftartefakte. Untersuchungen zur Materialität von Keilschriftdokumenten’ give an idea of the rich potential of this research question. All articles focus on inscribed artefacts made from clay. But coming from different disciplines – archaeology, computer science, cuneiform studies and physics – and being specialized in different periods, the authors approach the subject matter differently. This allows for the presentation of new methods and exiting results. It becomes evident that research on materiality delivers information on a variety of topics, e.g. aethestics of monuments, transfer of knowledge, bilingualism (Akkadian – Aramaic) and archival practices. The contributions to the richly illustrated book are in English and German, each of which is accompanied by an English abstract.
