Alphabet scribes in the land of cuneiform : sēpiru professionals in Mesopotamia in the neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods /

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 -...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bloch, Yigal (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Piscataway, NJ, USA : Gorgias Press, 2018
Series:Gorgias studies in the ancient Near East ; 11
Gorgias studies in the ancient Near East 11
Subjects:
Alphabet
Cuneiform writing
Scribes > Iraq > Babylonia
Semitic languages > Alphabet
Écriture cunéiforme
Langues sémitiques > Alphabet
Langues sémitiques
Scribes
Semitic languages
cuneiform
Iraq
Middle East > Babylonia

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