Machine generated contents note: -- I. Materiality and literacies -- 1. Tablets as artefacts, scribes as artisans, Jonathan Taylor -- 2. Accounting in proto-cuneiform, Robert K. Englund -- 3. Numeracy and metrology, Gregory Chambon -- 4. Levels of literacy, Niek Veldhuis -- 5. Literacy and gender, Brigitte Lion -- II. Individuals and communities -- 6. The person in Mesopotamian thought, Benjamin R. Foster -- 7. The scribe of the Flood Story and his circle, Frans van Koppen -- 8. Feasts for the living, the dead, and the gods, Hagan Brunke -- 9. Cuneiform writing in Neo-Babylonian temple communities, Michael Jursa -- 10. Freedom in ancient Near Eastern societies, Eva von Dassow -- III. Experts and novices -- 11. Teacher-student relationships: two case studies, Yoram Cohen & Sivan Kedar -- 12. Patron and client: Zimri-Lim and Asqudum the diviner, Dominique Charpin -- 13. Learned, rich, famous and unhappy: Ur-Utu of Sippar, Michel Tanret --^
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