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Article: The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer.(Book review)
- Article from:
- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer. By JEAN-JACQUES GLASSNER; tr. Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van De Mieroop. Baltimore: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV. PRESS, 2003. Pp. xvii + 266, illus. $42.
Johns Hopkins University Press has published what for all appearances is a well-bound English translation of J.-J. Glassner's Ecrire a Sumer: l'invention du cuneiforme (Paris: Seuil, 2000). Quite competent translators were found for the task, and dutiful words of praise included on the book's well-designed jacket (W. Rosenberger).
A few technical remarks can preface a statement about the book's intellectual merits. First, a book so heavily dedicated to the graphic ...