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Ancient knowledge networks : a social geography of cuneiform scholarship in first-millennium Assyria and Babylonia / Eleanor Robson

This study explores how knowledge networks sustained cuneiform intellectual culture in Assyria and Babylonia across five empires. It analyses the relationships between scholarship, politics, and religion while reviewing the historical development of Assyriological methods.
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