Aramaic Epigraphs on Clay Tablets of the Neo- Babylonian Period
Aramaic Epigraphs
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Abstract
In this article we study four Neo- Babylonian clay tablets from Babylon that contain Aramaic epigraphs. Deriving from the same archival context, these tablets bring to life the social of Babylon community and its multilinguistic landscape.
We argue that the appearance of alphabetic inscriptions is not a coincidence and tells us more about the role of Aramaic in Babylonian society at the time.
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