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    The cuneiform ha sign comes in two common varieties in the 1350 BC Amarna letters. It is also found in the large 12-chapter (Tablets I-XII) work of the...
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  • Cuneiform is one of the earliest systems of writing, emerging in Sumer in the late fourth millennium BC. Archaic versions of cuneiform writing, including...
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    contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Cuneiform is a...
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    these names) are known after the scripts in which they were written: Cuneiform Luwian (CLuwian) and Hieroglyphic Luwian (HLuwian). There is no consensus...
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    article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. This...
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    Old Persian cuneiform is a semi-alphabetic cuneiform script that was the primary script for Old Persian. Texts written in this cuneiform have been found...
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  • Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform script is covered in three blocks in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP): U+12000–U+123FF Cuneiform U+12400–U+1247F Cuneiform Numbers...
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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...
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  • article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Urartian...
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    article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. The Hittites...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Zu (cuneiform). Cuneiform zu, (also sú, ṣú, and Sumerogram ZU (capital letter majuscule)), is an uncommon-use sign...
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  • in cuneiform as ÚR×Ú.KI (cuneiform: 𒌱𒆠), URUM4 = ÚR×ḪA (cuneiform: 𒌯), besides ÚR×A.ḪA.KI (cuneiform: 𒌬𒆠), from earlier (pre-Ur III) ÚR.A.ḪA. It...
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    version Ḫabiru (sometimes written Habiru, Ḫapiru or Hapiru; Akkadian: 𒄩𒁉𒊒, ḫa-bi-ru or *ʿaperu) is a term used in 2nd-millennium BCE texts throughout the...
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  • contains pictographic inscriptions exemplifying an early precursor to Cuneiform. Many similar tablets have been found from the same period, all of which...
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    used to transliterate: Arabic Ḫāʾ (خ) /x/ Aramaic Ḫēt (𐡄) and (ח) /x/ Akkadian /χ/ Hittite laryngeal h, see Hittite cuneiform Egyptian , see Egyptian hieroglyphs...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nu (cuneiform). Cuneiform sign nu is a common use syllabic, or alphabetic (for n or u). It is restricted to "nu"...
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    article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Nineveh...
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    Sumerian language (category Cuneiform)
    obscurity until the 19th century, when Assyriologists began deciphering the cuneiform inscriptions and excavated tablets that had been left by its speakers...
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    sites across Iran. It is thought to have developed from early cuneiform (proto-cuneiform) and consists of more than 1,000 signs. It is thought to be largely...
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  • mixed logographic-phonetic scripts such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Akkadian cuneiform, Linear B, Japanese, and Mayan. Often they disambiguate an ideogram by...
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    article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. This...
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    (Adora, Dura) Afqa (Afeka) Alalakh (Alakhtum, Tell Atchana) Aleppo (Halab, Ha-Lam, Yamhad) Al-Rastan (Arethusa) Antioch (Antakiya) Apamea (Afamiya) Aphek...
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  • Uruk (category Cuneiform)
    You may need rendering support to display the cuneiform script in this article correctly. Uruk, known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near...
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  • Research institute, an establishment founded for doing research Ri (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign Ri (kana), a Romanization of the Japanese kana り and リ Ri...
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     522–486 BC). It was important to the decipherment of cuneiform, as it is the longest known trilingual cuneiform inscription, written in Old Persian, Elamite,...
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  • article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Hurrian...
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    article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Hattusa...
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    sq. mi.) to 900 ha (2,200 acres). The main sources of information about Babylon—excavation of the site itself, references in cuneiform texts found elsewhere...
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    Caucasian Albanian (Unicode block) Chorasmian (Unicode block) Cuneiform (Unicode block) Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation (Unicode block) Cypriot Syllabary...
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    on which the scene sits: The final inscription in the scene reads: The cuneiform text beneath the stele is divided into fifteen passages, blending prose...
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