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Thank you!! These answers are all great, the scarcity of information is a bit disheartening to hear, going to the city being really important then is pretty interesting. Are there any records or reconstructions of cities back in that period? Were there sorcerers marketing themselves in a few sources later?
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Yeah I think there's a few good reconstructions of Ur and some of Babylon I've seen. Ur they have pretty detailed street maps of. https://www.penn.museum/sites/journal/9359/
Haven't seen any sources of sorcerers more just references to needing to go to one. There are however whole books preserved that are about divinations for court magicians. Like a whole guide on how to tell the future from the spots on a lamb's liver. It's all very a-matter-of-fact "this is just what you do".