Tristan Hughes

That's all they say.

And Alexander the Great is the king in question.

I mean, what a king!

But, you know, that is written in cuneiform in the 4th century BC.

It makes you jump, doesn't it?

So the scholars are still using cuneiform for like... Oh, yes.

My only other one, before we completely wrap up, is that I see on many of these cuneiform tablets, especially from the time that I know you've done lots of work around the Ark tablet, the Babylonian map of the world, which have the cuneiform on top, all of these symbols are jam-packed together.

And for someone who doesn't know it, it's very difficult to distinguish symbol from symbol

And I guess also kind of sound from sound.

And word from word.

Or did they ever leave spaces or anything like that?

I think, yeah, we'll have to save going into some of those exemplar Kinnear form texts from the Library of Ashurbanipal for another day, won't we?

Those are the pinnacle of Kinnear.

There's lots and lots to say.

Well, Irving, until that point, it just goes to me to say, as always, thank you so much for coming on the podcast and being an absolute beacon of knowledge, a fountain of knowledge.

Well, it's a great privilege for me and a great pleasure at the same time.

Thank you.

Well, there you go.

There was the one and only, the legend, Dr Irving Finkel in fine form, talking all things how to write cuneiform.

I hope you enjoyed the episode just as much as we did recording it.