Libraries
Institutions for collecting, preserving, and accessing written knowledge, often for scholars and the elite.
Core metadata
- ID: libraries
- Era: Classical
- First known date: -650 (century)
- Region: Assyria / Nineveh
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
Dependents
- Classical Historiography (Herodotus, Thucydides) (classical_historiography_herodotus_thucydides)
- Encyclopedic Compendiums & Knowledge Organization (encyclopedic_compendiums_knowledge_organization)
- Humanism (humanism)
- Pharmacopoeia Compilation (pharmacopoeia_compilation)
- Public Libraries (Scroll Collections) (public_libraries_scroll_collections)
- Scientific Societies (scientific_societies)
- Universities (universities)
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- A library fit for a king (British Museum, 2018, museum) • Supports: node
Locator: British Museum describes Ashurbanipal's Library as over 30,000 cuneiform tablets and fragments from Nineveh, ruled by Ashurbanipal from 669-c.631 BCE.
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 1
- Average edge confidence: 75%
- Prerequisite sources: 1
- expert_inference: 1
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Writing (writing) | historical_predecessor | 75% | expert_inference | Writing is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency. |
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