Akkadian Cuneiform

Script Details

Akkadian Cuneiform

An inscription on the south side of the Van Castle Hill. It is a message from the Persian king Xerxes. This entry is being researched and is pending deletion.

By Bjørn Christian Tørrissen - Own work by uploader, http://bjornfree.com/galleries.html, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8296178

DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched

Data

ISO 15924 Xsux
Type Syllabary
Family Cuneiform
Diacritics No
Contextual Forms No
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 322
Earliest Location Mesopotamia
Earliest Date 235 BCE
Latest Date 500 BCE
Ancestry

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Cooper, Jerrold 1996 The World's Writing Systems, Mesopotamian Cuneiform "Sumerian and Akkadian", 45-57 Oxford University Press