Composition and Tradition of Erimhus

With The Composition and Tradition of Erimhus Kaira Boddy offers the first comprehensive study of the lexical list Erimhus. Boddy gives a detailed analysis of its structure and the ways in which the text and its role in scribal scholarship changed over time. Erimhus was highly valued by the Assyrian and Babylonian scholars of the first millennium BCE and several centuries earlier even caught the interest of the Hittites, who had their own ingenious ways of interpreting and using the material. Originally a bilingual list collecting groups of Akkadian words and their Sumerian equivalents, Erimhus took on a radically different character in Hattusa.