Cuneiform, Sumero-Akkadian
Full: Front Part of a clay tablet, upper right corner, 2 columns of inscription on either side, 49 and 51 lines + 45 and 49 lines, neo-Assyrian. Epic of Gilgamesh, tablet 11, story of the Flood. © The Trustees of the British Museum
© The Trustees of the British Museum
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Data
| Alternate Names | Sumerian Cuneiform, Akkadian Cuneiform |
|---|---|
| ISO 15924 | Xsux 020 |
| Type | Cuneiform |
| Family | Mainland Southeast Asian |
| Direction | LtR; Writing orientation shifted for unknown reasons |
| Diacritics | No |
| Contextual Forms | No |
| Capitals Used | No |
| Glyphs | 600-1000 |
| Earliest Location | Uruk (south east of modern day Iraq) |
| Earliest Date | 3200 BCE |
| Latest Date | 75 CE |
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Bibliography
| Author | Year | Publication | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper, Jerrold S. | 1996 | The Writing Systems of the World, Sumerian and Akkadian, 37-57 | Oxford University Press |
| Finkel, Irving | 2021 | How to write cuneiform | British Museum |
| Gragg, Gene B. | 1996 | The Writing Systems of the World, Other languages, 58-72 | Oxford University Press |
| Michalowski, Piotr | 1996 | The Writing Systems of the World, Mesopotamian Cuneiform, 33-36 | Oxford University Press |