Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and Classification in Cuneiform Cultures

Revealing the scholarly worlds behind the world's first writing system, this volume explores how cuneiform cultures classified, transmitted, and interpreted knowledge.

Cuneiform is the world's first preserved writing system, yet cuneiform texts and the associated cultures and practices remain undervalued across several disciplines. Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and Classification in Cuneiform Cultures explores the history of the earliest writing cultures of the ancient Middle East. Case studies reconstruct the intellectual frameworks and the transmission of knowledge of scribal cultures to show how specific texts and objects can be interpreted within their cultural contexts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1806550806
• ISBN13: 9781806550807
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: UCL Press
• Length: 424 Pages