𒋧
Reading: šum₂
Meaning: to give
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𒌨
Reading: ur
Meaning: dog, beast
𒀀
Reading: a
Meaning: water
‘Spreadsheets of empire’: red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists after Iraq finds - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/15/stone-tablets-mesopotamia-iraq-red-tape-bureaucracy "Ancient #Mesopotamian stone tablets show extraordinary detail and reach of government in cradle of world civilisations" #cuneiform
The Guardian · ‘Spreadsheets of empire’: red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists after Iraq finds
𒀴
Reading: nita₂
Meaning: man, male
𒆳
Reading: kur
Meaning: mountain, enemy land
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Qwynnyx
𓅮𓅱𓏏𓏭𓏖𓏞 I'm #bisexual & likely #aromantic as well as rather certainly #nonbinary.
Pronouns are they/them in English tho it gets tricky in languages with grammatical gender.
I've switched to #Linux on #desktop before getting sniped by Copilot but my phone's still in Android's & Google's grasp.
The #cuneiform to the left of my name reads "Child of the cosmos" in #Sumerian & the #hieroglyphs to the right read "primordial" in #AncientEgyptian.
#Introduction
#NeuHier
That is just a map. This should be the original tablet.
https://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Record/YPM-BC-019535
And its translation from Letters From Yale by Marten Stol
https://archive.org/details/letters-from-yale_202108/page/53/mode/1up?q=%22YBC+5471%22
I've been reading about the Sumerian civilization and found this site where you can spell out your name and see how it would be written in the Sumerian cuneiform alphabet..
#AncientHistory #SumerianEmpire #Cuneiform
https://www.penn.museum/cgi/cuneiform.php
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#Geschichte #KaiserKonstantin #Kalender
(10/n)
...Tag des #babylonischenKalenders, an dem nicht gearbeitet werden sollte, da er auch mit Unheil in Verbindung gebracht wurde:
"#Babylonian...that a seven-day unit time is mentioned in #cuneiform inscriptions 
with the especially important seventh day.
[
Der 7. und nicht der 1. Tag ] This was a day when working, making sacrifice, etc. was prohibited, i.c. according to #cuneiform inscriptions #Sapattu is interpreted as..
3,300-year-old tablet from mysterious Hittite Empire describes catastrophic invasion of four cities
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/3300-year-old-tablet-from-mysterious-hittite-empire-describes-catastrophic-invasion-of-four-cities #archaeology #Turkey #hittite #Tablet #cuneiform #Büklükale
Live Science · 3,300-year-old tablet from mysterious Hittite Empire describes catastrophic invasion of four cities
Can anyone recommend some introductory / undergraduate-level readings on cuneiform? One of the undergrads in my book history class just read Robson's essay in the Blackwell Companion to BH and is interested in learning more.
Thanks for any suggestions!
#cuneiform #teaching #bookhistory
I've been collecting interesting examples of information organisation in history, focusing on non-Western civilisations. I came across this example of an ancient Mesopotamian spreadsheet! It records wages paid to temple workers in 1295 BCE.
Was #cuneiform also equivalent to #braille?
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“…made cuneiform typesetting a difficult task…”
Wow. #cuneiform #assyrian #sumerian #heiroglyphics #typesetting
https://letterformarchive.org/news/view/cuneiform-tablet
@letterformarchive @aggietoppins
I've been here a couple of weeks now so I guess it's about time I posted an #introduction.
I'm a British academic living in Canada. I teach Ancient Near Eastern History and I research ancient Mesopotamia based on cuneiform tablets and archaeological evidence.
My career brought me to Toronto via Cambridge, Oxford, Helsinki, and Vienna. Not to mention Iraq, where I worked on digs that first got me hooked on ancient Mesopotamia (and on Iraq).
I'm profoundly pro-EU and anti-Brexit, and well left of centre. I'm interested in UK and Canadian (especially Ontario) politics, and I try to follow covid science.
Last but not least, I am ruled by the cutest tabby cat called Major Tom.