Cuneiform writings and their decipherment.
Cheops| N° d'inventaire | 23044 |
| Format | 27 x 19 |
| Détails | 48 p., saddle stitched. |
| Publication | Paris, 2016 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782916142081 |
In 1857, the Royal Asiatic Society of London entrusted a copy of a cuneiform inscription, just discovered at Ashur, under seal to the Englishmen E. Hincks, H. Rawlinson, and F. Talbot, as well as to the Frenchman J. Oppert. The translations of these scholars, read on May 25, agreed sufficiently for the syllabic cuneiform script to be declared deciphered. In 2007, the History and Archaeology of the Cuneiform Orient team (ArScan laboratory, UMR 7041 of the CNRS) organized an exhibition to celebrate this anniversary. This album, published for the occasion, presents the different stages of the rediscovery of the ancient Near East and the decipherment of cuneiform scripts. These were used for more than three millennia in a vast area of the Near East, encompassing not only Mesopotamia, but also neighboring regions, as far as Egypt, Turkey and Iran. The "nail-shaped" signs were adopted to notate various languages (Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Old Persian...) according to three different systems: ideographic, syllabic and alphabetic.
In 1857, the Royal Asiatic Society of London entrusted a copy of a cuneiform inscription, just discovered at Ashur, under seal to the Englishmen E. Hincks, H. Rawlinson, and F. Talbot, as well as to the Frenchman J. Oppert. The translations of these scholars, read on May 25, agreed sufficiently for the syllabic cuneiform script to be declared deciphered. In 2007, the History and Archaeology of the Cuneiform Orient team (ArScan laboratory, UMR 7041 of the CNRS) organized an exhibition to celebrate this anniversary. This album, published for the occasion, presents the different stages of the rediscovery of the ancient Near East and the decipherment of cuneiform scripts. These were used for more than three millennia in a vast area of the Near East, encompassing not only Mesopotamia, but also neighboring regions, as far as Egypt, Turkey and Iran. The "nail-shaped" signs were adopted to notate various languages (Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Old Persian...) according to three different systems: ideographic, syllabic and alphabetic.