JAL328H1 Lecture Notes - Cylinder Seal, Uruk Period, Oracle Bone Script
Document Summary
Cuneiform and mesopotamian writing from this point until the second to last class either looking at specific system or specific family of systems or region with different writing traditions. Mesopotamia where writing starts early cities along tigris and euphrates. Before the sumerians, people were writing on rocks, sticks, marks on objects but it is in sumer where that transitioned from pictorial picture writing to linguistic writing. The sumerian account of the invention of writing. The story of how writing was invented was a story. There was a political situation between enmmerrkar and lord of arrata. Correspondence between the two kings messengers would memorize king"s message, rpeat the message verbatim. Mythical fish creature walks out of red sea can trace oanes to vanna by sound changes. Uruk is one of the big cities in sumer in southeast of iraq 800 year span uruk period refers to all of these cities and towns.
