The world's oldest literature : : studies in Sumerian belles-lettres / / by William W. Hallo.
Literature begins at Sumer, we may say. Given that this ancient crossroads of tin and copper produced not only bronze and the entire Bronze Age, but also by neccesity, the first system of record-keeping and the technique of writing. Scribal schools served to propogate the new technique and their cur...
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Superior document: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East, v. 35 |
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Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;
v. 35. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (800 p.) |
Notes: | Collection of essays published elsewhere previously between 1962 and 2006. |
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