# No reading of the archaic texts as Akkadian or any other known language has succeeded, and the one Akkadian loanword…

> No reading of the archaic texts as Akkadian or any other known language has succeeded, and the one Akkadian loanword proposed for the Blau monuments was…

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[Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform)Evidence

Evidence · Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk

# No reading of the archaic texts as Akkadian or any other known language has succeeded, and the one Akkadian loanword…

No reading of the archaic texts as Akkadian or any other known language has succeeded, and the one Akkadian loanword proposed for the Blau monuments was replaced by a Sumerian reading.

Suggestive0

## What it means

Key question[What language, if any, do the proto-cuneiform texts record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT73JJJ1B/what-language-if-any-do-the-proto-cuneiform-texts-record)

5 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Proto-cuneiform records a non-Sumerian language](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/answers/ANS0DEDW4Q29FMT/proto-cuneiform-records-a-non-sumerian-language)

Counts againstnone for, 1 against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

## Next steps 3

1

Extract the archaic personal names (the slave-name set in Englund 2009 plus any name-position entries) from the CDLI bulk ATF, tabulate their sign structure, and run a permutation test against Early Dynastic Sumerian names (Fara, Abu Salabikh) and Early Dynastic Semitic names for shared elements and positional patterns.

~30 h

[On: What language, if any, do the proto-cuneiform texts record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT73JJJ1B/what-language-if-any-do-the-proto-cuneiform-texts-record)

**—** not judged

2

Build a sign-frequency and collocation table from the CDLI bulk ATF under the four counting conventions of Born and Kelley 2021, split by Uruk IV and Uruk III, and compare positional statistics (case-initial, case-final, co-occurrence entropy) with the same measures for the Archaic Ur texts and for proto-Elamite, to see whether Uruk III moves toward the pattern of a language-bound script.

~20 h

[On: What language, if any, do the proto-cuneiform texts record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT73JJJ1B/what-language-if-any-do-the-proto-cuneiform-texts-record)

**—** not judged

3

Compile every rebus spelling proposed for Uruk IV and Uruk III texts (Steinkeller 1995, Wilcke 2005, Monaco 2014, Krispijn, Johnson) as a table with the tablet P-number, the sign, the proposed Sumerian value and Whittaker's or Englund's objection, so the live cases can be checked against CDLI contexts one by one.

~12 h

[On: What language, if any, do the proto-cuneiform texts record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT73JJJ1B/what-language-if-any-do-the-proto-cuneiform-texts-record)

**—** not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

## Sources 3

[Texts from the Late Uruk Period](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGX6K5549/texts-from-the-late-uruk-period)

Englund 1998

SRC

[The Sumerian Question: Reviewing the Issues](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHQE9W64H/the-sumerian-question-reviewing-the-issues)

Whittaker 2005

SRC

[Towards the Deciphering of the "Blau Monuments": Some New Readings and Perspectives](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK6DJMW8X/towards-the-deciphering-of-the-blau-monuments-some-new)

Krebernik 2019

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). No reading of the archaic texts as Akkadian or any other known language has succeeded, and the one Akkadian loanword… [Evidence EVD0DEDXNJXPYX1]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDXNJXPYX1
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Evidence

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Suggestive

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[Session 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/sessions/SES0DEDZMVP66KE/session-1-proto-cuneiform-seeded-corpus-readings-and-open) · 31 Oct 2026

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