List of ancient Near Eastern scribes

An unnamed Sumerian scribe's accounts tablet for a basketry workshop, Ur, c. 2040 BC

This is a list of Near Eastern scribes. Besides the common clay tablet used in Mesopotamia, cylinder seals, stelas, reliefs, etc. are other commonly used mediums of the Near Eastern scribes.

List of scribes

Scribe	Time-period	Notes
Abijah	10th century BC	Scribe of the Gezer calendar
Azi (scribe)
Baruch ben Neriah
Bêl-bân-aplu		See: 0 (number)#History
Ezra
Sin-liqe-unninni		one author of version- Epic of Gilgamesh

References

• Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Tablets, Cones, and Bricks of the Third and Second Millennia B.C., vol. 1 (New York, 1988). The final section (Bricks) of the book concerns cylinder Seals, with a foreword describing the purpose of the section as to instigate Research into cylinder Seals. The 'cylinder sealing' on the bricks, was done multiple times per brick. Some are of high quality, and some are not. (Also contains the only 2 el Amarna letters, in the US, with Analysis.)

See also

• Cylinder seals