# Proto-Elamite is an administrative notation recording quantities, commodities, persons and institutions…

> Most likely: Proto-Elamite is an administrative notation recording quantities, commodities, persons and institutions without encoding speech.

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# Proto-Elamite is an administrative notation recording quantities, commodities, persons and institutions…

Proto-Elamite is an administrative notation recording quantities, commodities, persons and institutions without encoding speech.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: three pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Non-numerical signs fall into commodity, person and institution classes that predict the numeral system used.
- No sign shows phonetic behaviour.

## What would rule it out

- A set of signs is shown to spell words of a known language with consistent values.

## Evidence 3 for · none against

[Most of the roughly 1,900 non-numerical sign forms occur only a few times, unlike a phonetic inventory.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite/evidence/EVD0D1P97B27SYW/most-of-the-roughly-1-900-non-numerical-sign-forms-occur)

Suggestive

FOR

[Numeral magnitude correlates with tablet content, which fits an accounting system organised by commodity.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite/evidence/EVD0D1P97383PSR/numeral-magnitude-correlates-with-tablet-content-which-fits)

Suggestive

FOR

[The numeral systems are fully understood and the content of many tablets (animals, workers, rations) can be…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite/evidence/EVD0D1P96VE5M1X/the-numeral-systems-are-fully-understood-and-the-content-of)

Established

FOR

## The questions it answers

[Does Proto-Elamite record a language?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite/questions/QST0D1P9270104G/does-proto-elamite-record-a-language)

Most likelyProto-Elamite is an administrative notation recording quantities, commodities, persons and institutions…

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