claim · claim_literacy_not_state_scale_proxy_alone
A single inscription or scribal object demonstrates literacy in a context but does not by itself prove a large centralized state.
A single inscription or scribal object demonstrates literacy in a context but does not by itself prove a large centralized state.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: supported. This is separate from specialist review.
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Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
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Contradicting sources
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Other source context
- informs · provides primary evidence
The Khirbet Qeiyafa Ostracon: A New Collation Based on the Multispectral Images, with Translation and Commentary — Brian Donnelly-Lewis (2022)Shows local literacy with disputed polity.
Locator: Qeiyafa object context - informs · proposes interpretation
Religion at Kuntillet ʿAjrud — Jeremy D. Smoak, William M. Schniedewind (2019)Shows non-temple/administrative possibilities.
Locator: scribal curriculum - informs · provides primary evidence
Aramaic Texts from Deir ‘Alla — Jacob Hoftijzer, Gerrit van der Kooij (1976)Shows regional literary production.
Locator: plaster-text context
Referenced records
- Archaeological proxy, not ethnicity · property
- Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptions · entity
- Deir Alla Balaam plaster texts · entity
- Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon · entity