The Proto-Elamite Texts from Tepe Yahya (American School of Prehistoric Research Bulletin) - Softcover

Damerow, Peter; Englund, Robert K.

 
9780873655422: The Proto-Elamite Texts from Tepe Yahya (American School of Prehistoric Research Bulletin)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0873655427 ISBN 13: 9780873655422
Publisher: Peabody Museum Press, 1989

Synopsis

This comprehensive study of the Proto-Elamite language (ca. 3000 BC) is based on a small archive recovered from the site of Tepe Yahya in southeastern Iran. The authors, two of the leading specialists on the most ancient written texts of the Near East, illuminate the structure of the texts, the numerical sign systems used, and the relation of Proto-Elamite to other protocuneiform writing systems. A computer-generated sign list compares the written archive from Tepe Yahya with those of other archaeological sites from which Proto-Elamite texts have been recovered.

The volume offers a new understanding of the language and culture of the Proto-Elamites as well as important insights into the economic structure of the earliest literate civilizations. With a new preface by the authors.

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About the Author

C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky is Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.

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Publisher
Peabody Museum Press
Publication date
1989
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0873655427
ISBN 13 
9780873655422
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
108