Title: Lire et écrire à Babylone
Description: Shows how hundreds of thousands of clay tablets testify to the history of an ancient society that communicated broadly through letters to gods, insightful commentary, and sales receipts. This book includes many passages, offered in translation, that allow readers an illuminating glimpse into the lives of Babylonians.
Subjects: Civilization, Cuneiform writing, History, Reading, Kilskriften, Schriftlichkeit, Skrifthistoria, Skrift, Written culture, Keilschrift, 15.51 Antiquity, Middle east, civilization
Places: Iraq
Time periods: To 634