Startseite Literaturwissenschaften Erasing Signs and Lines on Old Assyrian Cuneiform Clay Tablets
Kapitel Open Access

Erasing Signs and Lines on Old Assyrian Cuneiform Clay Tablets

  • Cécile Michel

    Cécile Michel is director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Archéologies et Sciences de l’Antiquité, Histoire et Archéologie du Sud-ouest Asiatique et de l’Égypte, in Nanterre, France, and professor at the CSMC. As an Assyriologist and member of the excavation team of Kültepe (Anatolia), her research focuses on the economy, society, archival practices, literacy, education, and material culture of the cuneiform world.

Veröffentlichen auch Sie bei De Gruyter Brill
© 2026 Michele Cammarosano, published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston // The book is published with open access at www.degruyter.com.

© 2026 Michele Cammarosano, published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston // The book is published with open access at www.degruyter.com.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. A Framework for the Analysis of Rewriting Practices, and Three Case Studies: Clay Tablets, Wax Tablets, and Erasable Coatings 1
  4. The Future of the Past: Rewriting as a Cultural Practice from Handwritten Artefacts to the Digital Age 63
  5. Clay and Wax
  6. A Restorer’s Look at Rewritable Media: Cuneiform Clay Tablets in Conservation 75
  7. Temporality on Clay Tablets: When the Component Parts of a Cuneiform Document Were Committed to Clay 115
  8. Erasing Signs and Lines on Old Assyrian Cuneiform Clay Tablets 161
  9. Ashurbanipal and Objects for Esagil and Ešarra: A Case Study of Erasing, Removing, and Replacing Texts at the Height of the Assyrian Empire 191
  10. Refill, Reuse, Recycle? Reusing Wax Tablets in the Roman North-western Provinces 217
  11. Some Remarks on the Lexicon of Erasure between Antiquity and Middle Ages 255
  12. From Wax Tablets to Codices: The Possible Influence of the Stylus Holder on the Structure of Early Multi-gathering Codices 263
  13. Wax Tablets as Writing Media during the Middle Ages 309
  14. Papyrus, Parchment, Paper, and Wood
  15. Reasons for Papyrus Reuse in Ancient Egypt 335
  16. Coptic Palimpsests: When, Where, and Why? 357
  17. How to Erase Writing According to Recipes from the Arab World: Textual Analysis of Premodern Technical Recipes 373
  18. How to Erase Writing According to Recipes from the Arab World: Replication and Analytical Report 411
  19. Transient Texts: Erasable Writing on Wood, Sand, and Metal in Northern Nigerian Islam 439
  20. Writing and Rewriting Wooden Tablets in Seventh- and Eighth-Century Japan: The Mokkan Used for Learning 475
  21. Contributors 503
  22. Index of Written Artefacts
Heruntergeladen am 21.10.2025 von https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111682983-005/html?licenseType=open-access
Button zum nach oben scrollen