• unequivocally by the shape of their signs; see Early Dynastic Cuneiform for the Unicode block. The columns within the list contain: MesZL: Sign index in Rykle Borger's...
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    which form their signs. Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system and was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia...
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  • derived from the list of Ur III signs compiled by the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative of UCLA based on the inventories of Miguel Civil, Rykle Borger (2003)...
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    Zeichenlexikon ("Hittite Sign List" commonly referred to as HZL) of Rüster and Neu lists 375 cuneiform signs used in Hittite documents (11 of them only appearing...
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  • derived from the list of Ur III signs compiled by the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative of UCLA based on the inventories of Miguel Civil, Rykle Borger (2003)...
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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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    article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Old Persian...
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  • Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian Gardiner's sign list List of cuneiform signs Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hieroglyphs of Egypt. Michael Everson...
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  • Punctuation". "Early Dynastic Cuneiform" is designed to provide cuneiform signs used during one of the earliest phases of cuneiform writing, the Early Dynastic...
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    has media related to U (cuneiform). The cuneiform U sign is found in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh. It can be used...
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    The decipherment of cuneiform began with the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform between 1802 and 1836. The first cuneiform inscriptions published in...
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  • Biblical names in their native languages (category Lists of biblical names)
    surviving scrolls of the bible List of biblical names List of cuneiform signs List of Egyptian hieroglyphs Peshitta, a Syriac translation of the bible Proto-Canaanite...
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    ʔaʁˈçaːɪʃn̩ ˈkaɪlʃʁɪftˌtsaɪçn̩]; "list of archaic cuneiform signs"), abbreviated LAK, is a dictionary of Sumerian cuneiform signs of the Fara period (Early Dynastic...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to A (cuneiform). The cuneiform sign 𒀀 (DIŠ, DIŠ OVER DIŠ) for a, and in the Epic of Gilgamesh the sumerogram A, Akkadian...
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    Proto-Luwian or Luwian (in the narrow sense of these names) are known after the scripts in which they were written: Cuneiform Luwian (CLuwian) and Hieroglyphic...
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    written using the cuneiform sign for NIN as well. Many goddesses are called NIN or EREŠ, such as DNIN.GAL ("great lady"), DÉ.NIN.GAL ("lady of the great temple")...
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    The cuneiform an sign (or sumerogram AN, in Akkadian consisting of ASH 𒀸 and MAŠ 𒈦), is a common, multi-use sign, a syllabic for an, and an alphabetic...
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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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    Commons has media related to Ù (cuneiform). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Amarna letters. The cuneiform ù sign ('u, no. 3'), is found in both...
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    zodiac sign Taurus, and so on through the twelve signs of the zodiac so that each occupies 1⁄12th (30°) of the zodiac's great circle. Zodiac signs have...
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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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    singleton signs (like early stages of proto-cuneiform) due to texts being primarily consumed only locally and there is disagreement over whether some signs are...
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    related to Nu (cuneiform). Cuneiform sign nu is a common use syllabic, or alphabetic (for n or u). It is restricted to "nu", but in the Epic of Gilgamesh,...
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    Dingir (category Cuneiform determinatives)
    pronunciation: [tiŋiɾ]) is a Sumerian word for 'god' or 'goddess'. Its cuneiform sign is most commonly employed as the determinative for religious names and...
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    The cuneiform as sign, also aṣ, and az, is found in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh. As as and az in the Amarna letters...
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    related to Ab (cuneiform). The cuneiform sign (𒀊) for the syllable ab also represents that for ap, or the vowel and consonant usages of a, b, or p: in...
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    related to Tab (cuneiform). The cuneiform sign tap, or tab (also ṭab and TAB), is a common use sign in the Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh. It...
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    media related to Ud (cuneiform). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cuneiform signs, Amarna letters. The cuneiform ud sign, also ut, and with numerous...
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    (cuneiform). The cuneiform kur sign, (in cuneiform: 𒆳; as Sumerogram, KUR), has many uses in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh...
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    has media related to Ne (cuneiform). The cuneiform Ne sign, is found in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh. In the Amarna...
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