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| Jan 19, 2021 at 12:37 | comment | added | L.Dutch♦ | @SJuan76, I wrote scarcer than clay, not absent. And usually the more abundant something is, the cheaper it is. | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 12:20 | comment | added | AlexP | Pretty much this. The ancient Roman and Greek societies were highly literate; not only all free persons (men and women) were expected to be able to read and write, but also many slaves. We have letters written by women; in one of Plaut's comedies we see a slave actually criticizing the handwriting of the female love interest of his master; and we have very many casual inscriptions left by countless lower class persons, in all kinds of places. (Including lots of graffiti in Egypt, which shows that the inclination of tourists to scribble on monuments is a human universal.) | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 12:18 | comment | added | SJuan76 | "In Babylon [...] vegetation was scarcer than clay." I am not so sure. What we have from Babylon are mostly clay tablets, yes, but that does not mean that they did not have vegetation. They clearly substained themselves, and the zone was called the "Fertile Crescent". The abundance of clay tablets may be due to technological issues (it took a long time to develop papyrus, and even then it was far from cheap) and the characteristics of the material (organic materials degrade far more than clay tablets). | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 8:51 | history | answered | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |