Writing in Sumer : the invention of cuneiform / Jean-Jacques Glassner ; translated and edited by Zai...
Writing in Sumer : the invention of cuneiform / Jean-Jacques Glassner ; translated and edited by Zai...
Writing in Sumer : the invention of cuneiform / Jean-Jacques Glassner ; translated and edited by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van de Mieroop.
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Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
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2003.
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N492.1/7
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xvii, 266 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. The Sumerian Account of the Invention of Writing -- 2. Time & Place of the Invention -- 3. Received Ideas: The Pictographic Origins of Cuneiform Writing -- 4. Received Ideas: The Origin of Cuneiform Writing as an Accounting Device -- 5. Pictography or Writing: Oral Culture or Literate Culture --...
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Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
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2003.
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Writing in Sumer : the invention of cuneiform / Jean-Jacques Glassner ; translated and edited by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van de Mieroop.
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Originally published: Paris : Seuil, 2000, in series: L'univers historique.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N492.1/7
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74VK2r7vgAgM
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0801873894 (alk. paper)
9780801873898 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801873894 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801873898 (alk. paper)
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492.1
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991018056829702626
