Were there clay printing presses in the bronze age?
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Cuneiform was used for accounting documents much more often than for books
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It seems that the Phaistos Disc is the closest example of such a thing (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc#Typography), although the inscription is pictographic/logographic rather than cuneiform.
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