ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Rewriting the End of Cuneiform Culture
In the prevailing view, cuneiform script survived until the first century CE because it was the only way to write the most enduring Mesopotamian science, astronomy. This view, however, is skewed by the nature of the data: while astronomical texts are easy to date, the vast majority of non-astronomical tablets cannot be dated and are overlooked in histories of the period. Yet, the vitality of cuneiform in its terminal phase suggests that a wealth of late literary and scholarly tablets awaits the development of new dating methods. The aim of the Rewriting the End of Cuneiform Culture (RECC) project is to explain why cuneiform survived long after the great Mesopotamian centers had lost their…
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