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Linear Elamite was a writing system used in Elam during the Bronze Age between c. 2300 and 1850 BCE, and known mainly from a few extant monumental inscriptions. [5] It was used contemporaneously with Elamite cuneiform and records the Elamite language. [5]
The Byblos script, also known as the Byblos syllabary, Pseudo-hieroglyphic script, Proto-Byblian, Proto-Byblic, or Byblic, is an undeciphered writing system, known from ten inscriptions found in Byblos, a coastal city in Lebanon. The inscriptions are engraved on bronze plates and spatulas, and carved in stone.
An inscription, discovered in a palace, was carved on a brick whose lower left corner only has remained, explained Yusef Majidzadeh, head of the Jiroft excavation team. "The two remaining lines are enough to recognize the Elamite script," he added. "The only ancient inscriptions known to experts before the Jiroft discovery were cuneiform and ...
Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform which allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media.Communication can be private or take place in virtual communities called "servers".
Chinese bronze inscriptions, also referred to as bronze script or bronzeware script, comprise Chinese writing made in several styles on ritual bronzes mainly during the Late Shang dynasty (c. 1250 – c. 1046 BC) and Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 – 771 BC). Types of bronzes include zhong bells and ding tripodal cauldrons. Early inscriptions ...
Banna'i brickwork in the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasavi.The blue brickwork spells out the names of Allah, Muhammad and Ali in square Kufic calligraphy.. In Iranian architecture, banna'i (Persian: بنائی, "builder's technique" in Persian) is an architectural decorative art in which glazed tiles are alternated with plain bricks to create geometric patterns over the surface of a wall or to ...
Cuneiform [note 1] is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. [4] The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. [5]
"Imagining Cretan Scripts: the Influence of Visual Motifs on the Creation of Script Signs in Bronze Age Crete". The Annual of the British School at Athens. 116: 63–94. doi: 10.1017/S0068245421000034. ISSN 0068-2454. S2CID 244183664. I. Schoep, A New Cretan Hieroglyphic Inscription from Malia (MA/V Yb 03), Kadmos 34 (1995), 78–80.