Literary Snippets: A Colophon Reader: Volume 2 - Hardcoverby George Anton Kiraz (Editor), Sabine Schmidtke (Editor) This companion volume to Literary Snippets: Colophons Across Space and Time (Gorgias Press, 2023) gives examples of colophons from the Ancient Near East up to the pre modern world, from different traditions Akkadian, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and Persian. Colophons typically provide their readers with the historical context in which the scribe produced his or her work: Who was the scribe? When