Alphabet scribes in the land of cuneiform: sēpiru professionals in Mesopotamia in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods
This book discusses the alphabetic scribes (sēpiru) mentioned in Mesopotamian documents of the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods - specifically, of the 6th-5th centuries bce. The period in question saw a wide diffusion of writing in the Northwest Semitic alphabetic script - mostly in Aramaic - i...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Piscataway, NJ, USA
Gorgias Press
2018
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Gorgias studies in the Ancient Near East (11)
Year: 2018 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Blokh, Yigʼal, Alphabet scribes in the land of cuneiform : sēpiru professionals in Mesopotamia in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods] (2022) (Safford, Jan)
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| Series/Journal: | Gorgias studies in the Ancient Near East
11 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Babylonia
/ Scribe
/ Cuneiform
/ Semitic languages
/ Alphabet
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| Further subjects: | B
Alphabet
B Scribes Iraq Babylonia B Semitic languages Alphabet B Cuneiform writing |