Cuneiform Tablets

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Cuneiform Tablets

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1papyri
elokuu 7, 2007, 1:41 pm

The cuneiform writing system represents not only the earliest writing system but was was one of longest in use in human history. Cuneiform writing began as a pictographic form and eventually evolved into a simpler form which used wedge-shaped characters ("cuneiform"). The prefered writing medium was clay. Clay tablets would be impressed with the characters using a reed stylus. The tablets would be sun dried and often baked. This fortunatly, has led to the preservation of large numbers (over half a million are currently know)of them. These tablets provied a wealth of information about the past from literature, religion and the workings of government, to the every day affairs of ordinary people.

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The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC, until the end of the pre-Christian era.

http://cdli.ucla.edu/

2papyri
tammikuu 19, 2009, 2:20 pm

ScienceDaily article from June 22, 2007

Everyday Text Shows That Old Persian Was Probably More Commonly Used Than Previously Thought

New research on cuneiform tablets preserved in the collection of the Oriental Institute of the University Of Chicago is altering the traditional long-held views on the history and usage of the Persian language. Tablets have been found which show that the old Persian language, previously thought to be exclusively used for monumental carved inscriptions, was also the language in use for ordinary daily-use on clay tablets.

3timspalding
tammikuu 19, 2009, 3:06 pm

>2 papyri:

Well, that's a surprise!