# Mair 2022: Decipherment of Linear Elamite

> Victor H. Mair, 2022. 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Secondary; used for the provenance wording and the planned Bologna edition.

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# Decipherment of Linear Elamite

Victor H. Mair, 2022. _Language Log_.

Reproduces the Friends of ASOR summary of the decipherment (the Puzur-Sushinak bilingual as starting point, the silver beakers "allegedly" from Kam-Firuz, the purely phonetic analysis) with a discussion thread.

**Proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite** Web pageChecked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Secondary; used for the provenance wording and the planned Bologna edition.

## Cited by on this site 2 records

[The readings rest heavily on names in short, formulaic texts, and the authors concede Elamite is imperfectly…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite/evidence/EVD0D1P945G4RYA/the-readings-rest-heavily-on-names-in-short-formulaic-texts)

Evidence

EVD

[Proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite)

The mystery article

MYS

## Cite it

```
Mair, V. H. (2022). Decipherment of Linear Elamite. Language Log. https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=56019
```

[Read it free at languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu](https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=56019)

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