The Disappearance of Cuneiform Writing in Assyria and Babylonia: A Comparative Approach By Eckart Frahm

https://www.academia.edu/145471495/The_Disappearance_of_Cuneiform_Writing_in_Assyria_and_Babylonia_A_Comparative_Approach?email_work_card=title Studies related to the disappearance of cuneiform writing usually focus on the last phase of Babylonian civilization in the first century of the common era and the three centuries preceding it. During this period, the use of Babylonian cuneiform became gradually restricted to fewer and fewer domains of writing, before the script disappeared entirely. The essay at hand analyzes this historical development as well, but it also looks at the demise of Assyrian cuneiform writing some seven hundred years earlier, in an attempt to gain new insights into both incidents of script obsolescence through a comparative perspective. ...