# Piotr Steinkeller · Person

> Assyriologist (Harvard); reviewer of ZATU and defender of Sumerian readings. In Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk.

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# Piotr Steinkeller

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

[Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform)[2 sources]

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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## In the mysteries

**Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk**

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

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform)

## Sources 2

[Review of M. W. Green and H. J. Nissen, Zeichenliste der archaischen Texte aus Uruk](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ5J5GFCK/review-of-m-w-green-and-h-j-nissen-zeichenliste-der)

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[Earliest Land Tenure Systems in the Near East: Ancient Kudurrus (OIP 104)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK7EZ55WN/earliest-land-tenure-systems-in-the-near-east-ancient)

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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.

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