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"missing for a millennium" - according to both the article and the journal piece, the most recent of these fragments is nearly two millennia old. https://www.c
by smithkl42 1y ago
"missing for a millennium" - according to both the article and the journal piece, the most recent of these fragments is nearly two millennia old.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/iraq/article/literary-texts-from-the-sippar-library-v-a-hymn-in-praise-of-babylon-and-the-babylonians/B477D54E6554CA35718880339B3736CD https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/iraq/article/literar...
- ajcp 1y agoI think just because it's 2,000 years old doesn't mean it's been missing for 2,000 years? There could be references to a fragment as recently as 1,000 years ago, even if the contents of it were not recorded at that time. Or bad copy-editing.