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Some modern problems in controlling ancient names
| February 18, 2015 | Posted by Lanah Koelle under Uncategorized |
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From our friends at the Institute for Study of the Ancient World: “He lied to the people, saying ‘I am Nebuchadnezzar’”: Some modern problems in controlling ancient names by Gabriel McKee — Jan 30, 2015 The ISAW library recently received a copy of Nebukadnezar III/IV by Jürgen Lorenz, which assembles the primary sources for two little-known political upstarts in the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550-330 BCE). The two rebel Nebuchadnezzars—and all the other would-be contenders in ancient history—pose a problem for libraries and researchers: how do we catalog and search for history’s losers? One of the fundamental principles of cataloging is the concept of […] more
