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Proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite
Proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite2 key questions · 5 questions · 0 answered
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Most likelyProto-Elamite is an administrative notation recording quantities, commodities, persons and institutions…
Most likelyThe inventory is of the order of a thousand or more signs, many rare, as in proto-cuneiform
Most likelyLinear Elamite developed from Proto-Elamite in a continuous tradition
Most likelyThe 2022 sign values are correct in substance and Linear Elamite writes Elamite; the texts can now be read