Inscription of Shutruk-Nahhunte in Elamite cuneiform on the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin.
Script type
Logogram
Time period
3000 BCE to 400 BCE
Languages
Elamite language
Related scripts
Parent systems
Sumerian cuneiform
Akkadian cuneiform
Elamite cuneiform
Sister systems
Old Persian cuneiform
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Elamite cuneiform was a logo-syllabic script used to write the Elamite language. The corpus of Elamite cuneiform consists of tablets and fragments. The majority were created during the Achaemenid era, and contain primarily economic records.
Elamitecuneiform was a logo-syllabic script used to write the Elamite language. The corpus of Elamitecuneiform consists of tablets and fragments. The...
Elamite was written using Elamitecuneiform (circa 400 BC), which is fully deciphered. An important dictionary of the Elamite language, the Elamisches...
monumental inscriptions. It was used contemporaneously with Elamitecuneiform and records the Elamite language. The French archaeologist François Desset [fr]...
significant cuneiform corpora are Eblaite, Elamite, Hurrian, Luwian, and Urartian. The Old Persian and Ugaritic alphabets feature cuneiform-style signs;...
The decipherment of cuneiform began with the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform between 1802 and 1836. The first cuneiform inscriptions published in...
semi-alphabetic system, but Elamite and Akkadian used borrowings from other languages, creating mixed systems. Old Persian cuneiform was only deciphered by...
into Linear Elamite by the later 3rd millennium and then replaced by ElamiteCuneiform adopted from Akkadian. Markings and symbols found at various sites...
and Dez Rivers. The Proto-Elamite script is thought to have developed from early cuneiform (proto-cuneiform). The Proto-Elamite script consists of more...
to the decipherment of cuneiform, as it is the longest known trilingual cuneiform inscription, written in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian (a variety...
Napir (Linear Elamite: Elamitecuneiform: 𒈾𒀊𒅕 Na-pi-ir) was the Elamite god of the moon. The name was likely derived from the Elamite word nap or napir...
number of generally unrelated language isolates were found, including; Elamite, Gutian and Kassite in Iran, and Hattic, Kaskian and Hurro-Urartian in...
ancient civilization and kingdom in south-western Iran. The earliest known Elamite dynasty was the Awan dynasty, which came to power in the Early Dynastic...
Middle Kingdom in Egypt 2025 to 1378 BC – Old Assyrian Empire 2004 BC – Elamites destroy Ur 2004 to 1763 BC – Rise of the Amorites who established several...
language (which was a language isolate) before the introduction of Elamitecuneiform. The Amorites were a nomadic Semitic people who occupied the country...
Persepolis Fortification Archive: Elamite: the remains of more than 15,000 original records in the Elamite language, in cuneiform script. Aramaic: the remains...
empires. The advent of writing in Elam was parallelled to Sumer; the Elamitecuneiform developed beginning in the third millennium BC. Elam was part of the...
Babylonians, Assyrians, Elamites, Hurrians, Kassites, and Hittites. The Code of Hammurabi is the best-known of the cuneiform laws, but there were a number...
– in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian, which use two separate scripts (Babylonian and Elamite use variants of the same cuneiform). When they appear...
facing of baked bricks, a number of which have cuneiform characters giving the names of deities in the Elamite and Akkadian languages. Though the ziggurat...
found so far, predating these others, and that the ElamiteCuneiform and Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform written language originated in Jiroft, where the writing...
the 2nd millennium BC, cuneiform writing had also been used for other languages such as Ugaritic, Hurrian, Hittite or Elamite, which became subsumed under...
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