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Early Non-Cuneiform Writing? Third-Millennium BC Clay Cylinders from Umm el-Marra

Glenn M. Schwartz, 2010.

MYS0DEDPKNZB213 · mystery · click to copyMProto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabetChapterdoi: 10.1163/9789004186569_0240

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In S. C. Melville and A. L. Slotsky (eds), Opening the Tablet Box: Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Benjamin R. Foster, Leiden: Brill, 375-395. First publication of the four inscribed clay cylinders from Tomb 4 at Umm el-Marra (Early Bronze IVA, c. 2450-2300 BC): twelve signs, eight distinct.

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Glenn M. Schwartz (2010). Early Non-Cuneiform Writing? Third-Millennium BC Clay Cylinders from Umm el-Marra. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004186569_024
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