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    The proto-cuneiform script was a system of proto-writing that emerged in Mesopotamia, eventually developing into the early cuneiform script used in the...
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    wedge shape of the strokes. Most Proto-Cuneiform records from this period were of an accounting nature. The proto-cuneiform sign list has grown, as new texts...
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    The Proto-Elamite script is an early Bronze Age writing system briefly in use before the introduction of Elamite cuneiform. There are many similarities...
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  • impressions that give cuneiform signs their name. As was the case with the tokens, numerical impressions, and proto-cuneiform numerals, cuneiform numerals are...
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  • The site was first excavated in 1926 by Stephen Langdon, who found Proto-Cuneiform clay tablets in a large mudbrick building thought to be the ancient...
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    Kish tablet (category Cuneiform)
    transitional stage between proto-writing and the emergence of the partly syllabic writing of proper cuneiform writing . The proto-literate period of Egypt...
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    Babylonian cuneiform numerals, also used in Assyria and Chaldea, were written in cuneiform, using a wedge-tipped reed stylus to print a mark on a soft...
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     3500 BC) reflects the stage of proto-cuneiform, when what would become the cuneiform script of Sumer was still in the proto-writing stage. By the end of...
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    of 1993[update], Kushim's name was known to appear in 18 separate Proto-cuneiform clay tablets from the period. Another Uruk period clay tablet that...
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    varieties of Proto-Luwian or Luwian (in the narrow sense of these names) are known after the scripts in which they were written: Cuneiform Luwian (CLuwian)...
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  • kinds of measurement. Much like counting tokens, early Mesopotamian proto-cuneiform numerals often utilised different signs to count or measure different...
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  • all the way down to the most basic cuneiform symbols used to represent numeric quantities. For example, the cuneiform symbol for 1 was an ellipse made by...
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    writing system briefly in use before the introduction of Elamite cuneiform. -3000 SUMER Proto- Elamite EBLA Jeul- mun INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION Corded Ware...
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     1 CE). Sumerian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs are considered the earliest true writing systems, both having gradually evolved from proto-writing between...
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    with Proto-Elamite writing have been found at different sites across Iran. It is thought to have developed from early cuneiform (proto-cuneiform) and...
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    Jemdet Nasr, and date to between c. 3350 – c. 2500 BC, following a period of proto-writing c. 4000 – c. 2500 BC. Sumerians The term "Sumer" (Akkadian: 𒋗𒈨𒊒...
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  • token system used for accounting purposes in Mesopotamia (c. 9000 BC) Proto-cuneiform (c. 3500 BC) Indus script (c. 3500 BC) Nsibidi script (before 500 AD)...
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    Tărtăria tablets (category Proto-writing)
    Tărtăria signs are in some way related to Mesopotamian proto-writing, particularly Sumerian proto-cuneiform, which they argued was contemporary. In 1961, members...
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    see also "Proto cuneiform". Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2017. (extract of the previous) and "Proto cuneiform Version II"...
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    Karkheh and Dez Rivers. The Proto-Elamite script is thought to have developed from early cuneiform (proto-cuneiform). The Proto-Elamite script consists of...
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    twenty-seven cuneiform characters. The southern Canaanites also developed new scripts of their own, two variations in fact-Proto-Sinaitic and Proto-Canaanite-both...
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  • period, the Uruk period, and the Jemdet Nasr period and included four Proto-Cuneiform tablets. An Early Dynastic, with a few later inclusions, cemetery was...
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    emerging Sumerian hegemony during the Uruk Expansion and development of Proto-cuneiform writing; base-60 mathematics, astronomy and astrology, civil law, complex...
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  • (c. 18th century BC) Cuneiform Luwian (16th–15th century BC) Hieroglyphic Luwian (13th–8th century BC) Proto-Lyco-Carian Proto-Carian–Milyan Carian (7th–3rd...
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    Paleolithic period. Therein, writing emerged with a pictographic script, Proto-cuneiform, in the Uruk IV period (c. late 4th millennium BC). The documented...
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  • informing scholars about the importance of Ur during the Early Bronze Age. Proto-cuneiform tablets from the Early Dynastic period, c. 2900 BC, have been recovered...
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  • characters used to write reconstructed Proto-Indo-European words (for an explanation of the notation, see Proto-Indo-European phonology). Without proper...
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    Ugaritic letters in Mesopotamian cuneiform. Recently, some have suggested that Ugaritic represents some form of the Proto-Sinaitic script, the letter forms...
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    numerals Hebrew numerals Kharosthi numerals Maya numerals Roman abacus Proto-writing Roman numerals in Unicode Without theorising about causation, it...
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    is found (as UD.UNUG) on Proto-cuneiform lexical lists from the Uruk 4 period (late 4th millennium BC). A few Proto-cuneiform tablets were also found there...
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