Dierk wrote:
>>No Scriptorium (again an anachronistic term), but perhaps a branch office.
Jack responded:
>Scriptorium need not be a "monastic" term but a word that represents a place where scribal activity took place. >They may have called it maqom ha sefer but it is still irrelevent to my point.
"Scriptorium" has unavoidable and biased connotations. The term "writing room" is: (1) perfectly good English and (2) has no particular connotations. It means a room where one writes.
>Were those cotton pickin tables used for writing?
Writing tables in a professional writing room would have an inclined surface. Even lap boards and portable writing "cases" were not held flat (e.g. Egyptian, Akkadian, and Assyrian sculptures and murals of scribes). Are these "tables" inclined?
Simple really. Not inclined? Then they are not writing tables in a professional writing room.
Back on my head,
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