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| Translators' Preface | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | The Sumerian Account of the Invention of Writing | 9 |
| 2 | Time & Place of the Invention | 29 |
| 3 | Received Ideas: The Pictographic Origins of Cuneiform Writing | 48 |
| 4 | Received Ideas: The Origin of Cuneiform Writing as an Accounting Device | 63 |
| 5 | Pictography or Writing: Oral Culture or Literate Culture | 84 |
| 6 | The Earliest Sumerian Writing: The Word & the Specialist, the Tablet & the Stylus | 105 |
| 7 | The Earliest Sumerian Writing: The System of Signs | 121 |
| 8 | Drawing or Writing | 166 |
| 9 | The First Social Uses of Writing | 177 |
| 10 | The Triumph of Writing | 200 |
| 11 | A Written Language? | 215 |
| List of Abbreviations | 229 | |
| Notes | 231 | |
| Index | 259 |
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Jean-Pierre Roch
reviewed The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer on April 28, 2019
The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer
There's obviously a lot of great information in this, and it gave me ways of thinking about cuneiform which hadn't occurred to me before, but there's something about it that feels a bit disorganised or meandering. Is this just my attention span? Anyway, I'm left with a very joyful sense that we should see cuneiform as its own fully-fledged system, rather than as a mere antecedent of writing as we know it.
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