TY - CHAP AU - Markham, J. Geller ED - Johnson, J. Cale AB - This paper looks at how empirical knowledge was assembled and interpreted in Babylonian academies and investigates two Neo-Assyrian plant lists: KADP 2 and KADP 4. These two lists are not simple collections of scholastic information but represent examples of theoretical botany and pharmacology. It is suggested that KADP 4 is a kind of proto-commentary, in which glosses represent key-words for hermeneutical elaborations. The paper concludes with an annotated transliteration and translation of KADP 4. DO - 10.1515/9781501502507-003 ID - OAPEN ID: 1006320 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135849609 KW - early scientific thought KW - compilation and redaction in the ancient world KW - infrastructural compendia KW - empiricism L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/889f2376-6e95-4e0c-b9d5-21b7f9867c3f/69_[9781501502507 - In the Wake of the Compendia] Encyclopaedias and Commentaries.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23816 PB - De Gruyter PP - Berlin/Boston PY - 2015 SN - 9781501510762; 9781501502521 TI - Chapter Encyclopaedias and Commentariesnull ER -