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Invention of cuneiform : writing in Sumer
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Invention of cuneiform : writing in Sumer

by Jean-Jacques Glassner, Zainab Bahrani, Marc Van De Mieroop

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Accession 3405 ISBN — Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
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