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Encyclopedia > Elamite Cuneiform

The Elamite Cuneiform is a script which was used from about 2500 BC to 331 AD and was adapted from Akkadian Cuneiform. The Elamite Cuneiform script consisted of about 130 symbols, far fewer than most other cuneiform scripts. Writing Systems of the World today A Specimen of typeset fonts and languages, by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ... Look up Cuneiform in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


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Cuneiform - Search View - MSN Encarta (1628 words)
Cuneiform writing, which originated in southern Mesopotamia, was invented probably by the Sumerians, who used it to inscribe the Sumerian language; it was subsequently adapted for writing the Akkadian language, of which Babylonian and Assyrian are dialects.
The use of the Persian cuneiform was confined to the period from 550 to 330 bc.
The Elamite cuneiform is frequently called the language of the second form because it appears in the second position of the trilingual inscriptions of the Achaemenian kings.
Cuneiform script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (966 words)
Cuneiforms were written on clay tablets, on which symbols were drawn with a blunt reed called a stylus.
Cuneiform pictograms were drawn on clay tablets in vertical columns with a pen made from a sharpened reed stylus.
Cuneiform tablets could be fired in kilns to provide a permanent record, or they could be recycled if permanence was not called for.
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