Posted on 08/02/2022 10:12:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The paper uses newly examined inscriptions from a set of ancient silver beakers to propose a method for reading the symbols that make up Linear Elamite...
5,000 years ago, in the thriving city of Susa, on the fringe of the great Mesopotamian plain and the edge of the vast Iranian plateau that rises to the east...was at the heart of an urban society spanning much of what is today southwestern Iran. The city’s western neighbors, the Sumerians, dubbed its residents the Elamites.
French archaeologists digging in Susa at the turn of the 20th century uncovered evidence of a writing system that seemed nearly as old as cuneiform but used a different set of symbols. The system apparently fell out of use, as scribes in Susa...turned to cuneiform to write their language. 800 years later, another home-grown system took hold. Scholars dubbed the earlier system Proto-Elamite and the second... Linear Elamite; both were presumed to record the Elamite language, about which little is known.
Over the past century, archaeologists have uncovered more than 1,600 Proto-Elamite inscriptions, but only about 43 in Linear Elamite...
Desset, a French archaeologist... gained access to a private London collection of extraordinary silver vessels with a host of inscriptions in both cuneiform and Linear Elamite. Per the study, the elaborate beakers represent “the oldest and most complete examples of Elamite royal inscriptions in cuneiform.” They belonged to different rulers from two dynasties.
Some proper names written in cuneiform could now be compared with symbols in Linear Elamite—including the names of known Elamite kings, such as Šilhaha. By tracking repeated symbols that were likely proper names, Desset was able to make sense of the script, which comes in an array of geometric shapes. He also translated verbs such as “gave” and “made.”
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It says: Drink your Ovaltine.
A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!
“we have been trying to reach you regarding your chariot’s extended warranty...”
Is Linear Elamite related to Linear A (Minoan) or Linear B (Mycenaean)?
I’m going with Mesopotamian hobos.
I don’t think so, but don’t really know, but it’s supposedly two different languages to so maybe not at all.
No, it says “Drink your Tang!”
Admittedly I only scanned the article but it never says what it said? Only said they’ve figured out 96% - if you have that much, why not tell us what it said? Did I miss something?
Good questions.
The main problem with Minoan and other ancient scripts like Sumerian is that they are now language isolates with no known living descendants. The Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered not only because of the Rosetta Stone but because Champolier realized that modern Coptic was a descendant of ancient Egyptian.
“It says: Drink your Ovaltine.”
Turn in your PHD. It says “Eat at Abdul’s”.
“Let’s go Brandon”
See Ruby Falls
Interesting. Thanks.
Always a bit amazed, that even with computer analysis, there are still written languages we’ve yet to decipher.
It was prophetic. It says “Go Brandon!”
“Do not remove this tag”
The silver vessel resembles a German beer stein in shape, so maybe the inscription is a drinking song.
I meant, “without zoomorphic”. sorry
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