They wrote on wood. The case for a hieroglyphic scribal tradition on wooden writing boards in Hittite Anatolia.
The wooden writing boards frequently mentioned in Hittite texts have given rise to much debate, mostly regarding the scale on which they were used and the type of script that was written on them (cuneiform or hieroglyphs). In this paper, the evidence for the use of wooden writing boards in Hittite A...
| Publicado en: | Anatolian Studies (British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara) Vol. 61; pp. 21 - 35 |
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
2011
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