TY  - BOOK
ED  - Radner, Karen
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2011//
TI  - Oxford handbook of cuneiform culture
T3  - Oxford handbooks in classics and ancient history
ET  - 1. publ.
CY  - Oxford [u.a.]
KW  - Cuneiform inscriptions
KW  - Cuneiform writing
KW  - Assyriology
KW  - Assyria
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian
AB  - "The cuneiform script, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia, was witness to one of the world's oldest literate cultures. For over three millennia, it was the vehicle of communication from (at its greatest extent) Iran to the Mediterranean, Anatolia to Egypt. The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture  examines the Ancient Middle East through the lens of cuneiform writing. The contributors, a mix of scholars from across the disciplines, explore, define, and to some extent look beyond the boundaries of the written word, using Mesopotamia's clay tablets and stone inscriptions not just as 'texts' but also as material artefacts that offer much additional information about their creators, readers, users and owners"--
SN  - 9780199557301
LA  - English
N1  - ed. by Karen Radner and Eleanor Robson
ID  - 644579358
ER  -