The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer

by Jean-Jacques Glassner

Book Overview

As the first known system of writing, the cuneiform symbols traced in Sumerian clay more than six millennia ago were once regarded as a simplistic and clumsy attempt to record in linear form the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801873894
• ISBN13: 9780801873898
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 8.6"