Reading and writing in Babylon

Publication Data

• Title Reading and writing in Babylon
• Alternative Title Lire et écrire à Babylone. English
• Author Dominique Charpin
• Publisher Harvard University Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Cambridge, Mass.
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

Translated from the French.

Contents

Apprenticeships in the art of the scribe : frameworks, methods, demographics
The archival documents
Oral and written. Part 1, Correspondence
Oral and written. Part 2, Oaths, contracts, and treaties
"Literary" works and libraries
Messages for the gods and for posterity.

Topics

• Cuneiform writing :: History
• Reading :: Iraq :: History
• Iraq :: Civilization :: To 634
• Iraq

Reading and writing in Babylon by Dominique Charpin. ISBN 9780674049680. Published by Harvard University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.