On Sunday 26 December 2004 17:33, Dierk van den Berg wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jack Kilmon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Dierk van den Berg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 12:21 AM > Subject: Re: [Megillot] L30 Tables
[snip] > > > No Scriptorium (again an anachronistic term), but perhaps a branch > > office. > > > Scriptorium need not be a "monastic" term but a word that represents a > > place > > > where scribal activity took place. They may have called it maqom ha > > sefer but it is still irrelevent to my point. Were those cotton pickin > > tables used for writing? > > If calculation is a scribal activity then I'd suppose that two of the three > tables (# 967, # 969) were used for writing. Could you expand on this a bit, including sources where photos etc. of the items in question might be found? I'm particularly interested in how you conclude that these two items were used for calculation? [snip] Thanks, -- Dave Washburn http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur "No good. Hit on head." -Gronk _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
