Thanks for that, bro - very interesting, and typically kind in the trouble you went to on our behalf.

Curious to think that the burgeoing monotheistic faith led to the death of cuneiform script. I guess it's the natural corollary of the growth of power invested in a language by the social prestiege of the dominant social group that favours it. In other words, when a language no longer serves the interests of a powerful group it is likely to decline. I had just never thought so clearly of that process applying to a whole script system.