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  2. Proto-Elamite script - Wikipedia

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    The Proto-Elamite script is an early Bronze Age writing system briefly in use before the introduction of Elamite cuneiform. There are many similarities between the Proto-Elamite tablets and the contemporaneous proto-cuneiform tablets of the Uruk IV period in Mesopotamia. Both writing systems are a relatively isolated phenomenon.

  3. Proto-Elamite (period) - Wikipedia

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    The most important Proto-Elamite sites are Susa and Anshan.Another important site is Tepe Sialk, where the only remaining Proto-Elamite ziggurat is still seen. Texts in the undeciphered Proto-Elamite script found in Susa are dated to this period as well as at Tepe Sofalin and Tepe Yahya.

  4. Undeciphered writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Seals showing Indus script, an ancient undeciphered writing system Page 32 of the Voynich manuscript, a medieval manuscript written with an undeciphered writing system. Many undeciphered writing systems exist today; most date back several thousand years, although some more modern examples do exist.

  5. Elamite language - Wikipedia

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    The following scripts are known or assumed to have encoded Elamite: [7] Proto-Elamite script is the oldest known writing system from Iran. It was used during a brief period of time (c. 3100–2900 BC); clay tablets with Proto-Elamite writing have been found at different sites across Iran.

  6. Linear Elamite - Wikipedia

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    Some scholars have suggested that Linear Elamite is derived from the older Proto-Elamite script. Desset and colleagues argue that Linear Elamite is an evolution of the Proto-Elamite script, and that the Proto-Elamite script evolved, in parallel with Sumerian cuneiform , from a common substrate of simple signs and numerals used with accounting ...

  7. Elam - Wikipedia

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    The history of Elam is conventionally divided into three periods, spanning more than two millennia. The period before the first Elamite period is known as the proto-Elamite period: Proto-Elamite: c. 3200 – c. 2700 BC (Proto-Elamite script in Susa) Old Elamite period: c. 2700 – c. 1500 BC (earliest documents until the Sukkalmah Dynasty)

  8. Writing - Wikipedia

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    The Proto-Elamite script is thought to have developed from early cuneiform (proto-cuneiform). The Proto-Elamite script consists of more than 1,000 signs and is thought to be partly logographic. Linear Elamite is a writing system attested in a few monumental inscriptions in Iran. It was used for a very brief period during the last quarter of the ...

  9. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    the Proto-Elamite script; the Indus script (speculated to record a "Harappan language") Cretan hieroglyphs and Linear A (encoding a possible "Minoan language") [4] the Cypro-Minoan syllabary [5] Earlier symbols, such as the Jiahu symbols or Vinča symbols, are believed to be proto-writing, rather than representations of language.