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Abstract
The present contribution will discuss fragments of Greek in Babylonian sources from the very end of the cuneiform culture, addressing the issue of fragmentariness in the sense of ‘fragmentarily attested’. The analysis will be based on quantitatively limited corpora of occurrences of Greek, both language and script, in Babylonian sources. Their characteristics and specific nature will be examined in detail. The evidence under discussion will be interpreted as tangible expression of the multilingual environment of Hellenistic and Parthian Babylonia, and of the intricate mechanisms that regulate the relationship between different languages and writing systems in this context.