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Sumerian cuneiform tablet Stone tablet with rows of Hieroglyphic Luwian script carved in relief, showing intricate symbols and characters, from Turkey. Persian cuneiform from the Xerxes inscription at Persepolis Sumerian cuneiform inscription from the temple dedicated to Enlil at Nippur, Iraq The number 258,458 expressed in the sexagesimal (base 60) system of the Babylonians and in cuneiform. Examples illustrating the evolution of cuneiform writing.
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Sumerian cuneiform tablet
An account of barley distribution, probably from Uruk, Mesopotamia, c. 3100–2900...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Purchase, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gift, 1988, 1988.433.1, www.metmuseum.org
Hieroglyphic Luwian text, Turkey
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Persian cuneiform from the Xerxes inscription at Persepolis
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Sumerian cuneiform inscription from the temple dedicated to Enlil at Nippur, Iraq
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941, 41.160.187, www.metmuseum.org
The number 258,458 expressed in the sexagesimal (base 60) system of the Babylonians...
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Examples illustrating the evolution of cuneiform writing.
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