History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria by H. R. Hall - L. W. King

Author:H. R. Hall - L. W. King [King, H. R. Hall - L. W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Ancient, Egypt -- History -- To 332 B.C.
Publisher: Andhof
Published: 2006-07-07T22:00:00+00:00

The photograph is taken from M. de Morgan's Délégation en

Perse, Mem., t. vi, pi. 23.

On these tablets, in fact, we have a new class of cuneiform writing in an early stage of its development, when the hieroglyphic or pictorial character of the ideographs was still prominent.

The photograph is reproduced from M. de Morgan's Délégation

en Perse, Mém., t. vi, pi. 22.

Although the meaning of the majority of these ideographs has not yet been identified, Père Scheil, who has edited the texts, has succeeded in making out the system of numeration. He has identified the signs for unity, 10, 100, and 1,000, and for certain fractions, and the signs for these figures are quite different from those employed by the Sumerians.

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