writing cuneiform

Readings

• L. Messerschmidt, “Zur Technik des Tontafel-Schreibens”, OLZ 9, 1906, 185-196, 304-312, 372-380

• G.P. Basello, “A Middle Elamite Inscribed Brick in the National Museum of Oriental Art, Rome”,  Elamica 3, 1-33

• M. Cammarosano, “The Cuneiform Stylus”, Mesopotamia XLIX, 2014, 53-90

• J. Taylor, “The Making and Re-Making of Clay Tablets”, Scienze dell’Antichità 17, 2012, 297-324

• A. Bramanti, “The Cuneiform Stylus. Some Addenda”, CDLN 2015/12

• E. Devecchi, G. Müller, and J. Mynářová (eds.), Current Research in Cuneiform Palaeography, Gladbeck 2015

• M. Cammarosano, K. Weirauch, F. Maruhn, G. Jendritzki, P. Kohl, “They Wrote on Wax. Wax Boards in the Ancient Near East”, Mesopotamia LIV, 2019, 121-180

• M. Cammarosano, “Writing on Wood in Hittite Anatolia”, in: M. Betrò et al. (eds), The Ancient World Revisited: Material Dimensions of Written Artefacts, Berlin, Boston 2024,165-206

On the web

• Irving Finkel Teaches Us Cuneiform

• “Scribes in Mesopotamia” by Theo van den Hout

• How to write cuneiform

Umberto Eco, Conversazione a Babilonia, in: Il secondo diario minimo, 1992, 55-56

So-called BabiloNokia by Karl Weingärtner (don't know Berossos' Babyloniaca? :))