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Kelley, Kathryn

 
9781009614573: Proto-Elamite: Writing and Society in Early Iran
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ISBN 10 : 1009614576 ISBN 13 : 9781009614573
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Proto-Elamite is one of the world's earliest scripts and it remains only very partly deciphered. Excavations have uncovered c. 1,700 clay tablets from Iran, dating c. 3300–2900 BCE. The tablets use a complex system involving hundreds of symbols to count commodities, people, and institutions. Despite holding a privileged place in the history of writing, the study of proto-Elamite falls outside modern disciplinary boundaries and has received very limited scholarly attention since its discovery over a century ago. Nonetheless, a handful of scholars have shown that there is much we can learn about proto-Elamite and the people who used it, especially by taking interdisciplinary approaches. The ongoing decipherment project combines mathematics, a range of comparative studies, and a sustained effort to digitize the corpus and apply new tools from computer science.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1009614576
ISBN 13 
9781009614573
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Nombre de pages
122
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ISBN 10 :  1009614525 ISBN 13 :  9781009614528
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2026
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