Writing in Anatolia: The Origins of the Anatolian Hieroglyphs and the Introductions of the Cuneiform Script

This article argues that the Anatolian hieroglyphic script, which is generally thought to have been an invention of the second half of the second millennium BCE, has its origins already in the late third/early second millennium BCE. The argument that Anatolian hieroglyphs are much older than hithert...

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Main Author: Waal, Willemijn (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:German
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Published: De Gruyter 2012
In: Altorientalische Forschungen
Year: 2012, Volume: 39, Issue: 2, Pages: 287-315
Further subjects:B GIŠ.HUR
B Hittite cuneiform
B lexical texts
B IṢURTUM
B wooden documents
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