Bloch, Alphabet scribes in the land of cuneiform

BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Alphabet scribes in the land of cuneiform. Notice of a new book: Bloch, Yigal. 2018. Alphabet scribes in the land of cuneiform: sepiru professionals in Mesopotamia in the neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods (Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East 11). Piscataway, NJ, USA: Gorgias Press.. Follow the link for additional details.

For more on the sepīru (Aramaic alphabetic script) scribes and the tupsharru (cuneiform) scribes, see here and links.

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