#cuneiform — Public Fediverse posts
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📜✍️ #Enheduanna (2285–2250 BCE), daughter of King Sargon of #Akkad, was high priestess of the moon god at #Ur in modern-day #Iraq. She wrote hymns to the goddess Inanna and 42 temple hymns, signing her name – something no known #writer had done before.
#sumer #mesopotamia #ancient #history #poetry #cuneiform #archaeology #literature #writing #princess
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𒂦
Reading: bad₃
Meaning: wall, fortification#cuneiform #assyriology #deadLanguage #Mesopotamia #education
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I think I've figured out why my earlier attempt to learn #Akkadian failed. I wanted to learn the #Cuneiform signs, and was too focused on identifying signs by counting strokes. But "the same" sign often has different numbers of strokes, different directions of strokes, even different kinds!
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I think I've figured out why my earlier attempt to learn #Akkadian failed. I wanted to learn the #Cuneiform signs, and was too focused on identifying signs by counting strokes. But "the same" sign often has different numbers of strokes, different directions of strokes, even different kinds!
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𒅴
Reading: eme
Meaning: tongue, language, speech#cuneiform #assyriology #deadLanguage #MiddleEast #education
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Cuneiform Written Artifacts and Missing Evidence in the Study of the Ancient Near East
"While spectacular new discoveries can reveal previously unknown aspects of ancient cultures, they also highlight all that has been lost. Successive discoveries, from Babylon to Mari and Ebla, have revealed that Mesopotamian history is not singular, but multiple; each site and period has its own history. Such new evidence must be treated with caution and with an awareness of its incomplete nature and the risks of overinterpretation."
Michel, C. 2026. “Cuneiform Written Artifacts and Missing Evidence in the Study of the Ancient Near East”, The Ancient Near East Today 14.4. Accessed at: https://anetoday.org/cuneiform-written-artifacts/.
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The time between now and Hypertext’s invention is longer than the time between it and the adoption of cuneiform on clay.
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My morning coffee wants to discuss the history of writing forms. From cuneiform on wet clay to markdown (as a cute analog of digital words).
• Clay tablets covered in silt or lava ash or risen sea levels took thousands of years to connect with a reader, if ever.
• Markdown gets sent across the ether instantly and it still may or may not find a reader.
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Not to be that guy
But the closest to "Shark trumpet"
In Sumerian would be "Fish Ubu(flute)"𐎥𐎨𐎽𐎧 ｴﾝ𒁍𒁍
Let's see if we can beetle juice @sumerian
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