--- suzmccarth <suzmccarth@...> wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels"
> <grammatim@...> wrote:
> > suzmccarth wrote:
> > > I would suppose that a system of reading for the
> > > blind would only come about in a civilization in
> > > which expectations for mass literacy
> > > already existed, so post-reformation Europe. I
> > > would be very interested in hearing if any came
> > > about elsewhere.
> >
> > I don't know of any evidence for blind people
> > reading cuneiform, but there's no reason they
> > couldn't have.
>
> I have been completely unaware of a raised cuneifrom
> script. How was it created?

Umm not raised but depressed would also be tactile
enough to read with fingers, though surely with quite
a bit more difficulty.

Andrew.

> Suzanne
>
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