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Rewriting the End of Cuneiform Culture

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tives: To grasp the extent of the textual production of the late period and the network of scribal families responsible for it. To chart the development of cuneiform script by means of a pioneering Machine Learning-powered tool (CuneiDate) that enables, for the first time, the inferred dating of undated tablets. To rewrite the end of cuneiform civilization by explaining the reasons for the continued use of cuneiform. This pathbreaking method promises to revolutionize cuneiform studies and other disciplines that study manuscript cultures by providing historical context to thousands of unmoored documents. The recovery of these contexts will disclose how the Babylonians coped with the loss of significance of their millennia-old traditions and offer insights for contemporary cultures experiencing cultural anxiety as they interact with more dominant cultures in a globalized world. Cuneiform, Mesopotamia, Hellenistic Babylonia, Assyriology, Digital Paleography

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