Reply To: Social stratification in the Ancient Near East

[Allie Eby]

Hi Gabe, I really like your point about the ability to write adding a level of privilege. Do you think the merchants and traders knew how to write themselves, or perhaps some of them hired career scribes? It would be interesting (but to me, would make sense) if scribes counted as upper-class citizens simply due to their usefulness and skills being in high demand.