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Piotr Steinkeller

Assyriologist (Harvard); reviewer of ZATU and defender of Sumerian readings

Piotr Steinkeller is polish-American Assyriologist at Harvard whose 1995 review of ZATU proposed Sumerian sign values for the archaic texts and who co-edited the earliest land-sale documents (OIP 104), including the Blau monuments., and appears in the record of Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk as assyriologist (Harvard); reviewer of ZATU and defender of Sumerian readings.

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Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk
Assyriologist (Harvard); reviewer of ZATU and defender of Sumerian readings
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Mysteries Department. (2026). Piotr Steinkeller [Person FIG0DEDPDHHA1NQ]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/FIG0DEDPDHHA1NQ
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