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Early Writing in Sumer: A Review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Joan Oates
Joan Oates
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Faculty of Oriental StudiesSidgwick Ave Cambridge CB3 9DA
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Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , April 1993 , pp. 149 - 153
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Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 1993

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