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Cuneiform Signs

Analysis and reports to support an international standard for computer encoding of the Cuneiform writing system

Research on the development of Cuneiform signs

 

Remaining Unknowns from "Ur Excavation Texts II"

 

This is a list of archaic signs, corresponding to the lists LAK for Fara and the list KWU for Ur III list.

Thanks for any help identifying any of the items I have not been able to, either identifying with signs in other lists / from other eras, or identifying the components when that is possible. References to specialist literature are very welcome; also findings of specialists even if not published (with indication of use or not, and how credit should be cited)..

 

Signs which have sufficient distinctiveness that they are more likely to be identifiable (or perhaps already have been identified by specialists or in publications?):

24
43
50
74
81
97
103b
106
134
137
141
142
142b
150
157
165
166
176
186
209
213
218
223
241 ? BALA or BA.BA or ?
242
253
254
262
274
293
327 compare GUR or KAL ?
377
405
409

 

Signs which are so rarely attested or so fragmentary that their identification is on average more difficult

16
17
21
29
31
39
42
44
55
57
67
79
80
81
83
97
103f
110
115
115b
119
122
127
135
140
145v183
185
194
203
212ab
227 sign or diagram / map ?
246
250
251
294
316
329 Z714 ?
330
332
334
342
344
352
383
419
420

Copyright © 2003. All Rights Reserved. Much of the analytical material on this web site will be included in an etymological study and concordance to cuneiform signs, to be published shortly, and may be used to validate the sign list, but should not be cited in any detail until it is published (guaranteed 2004 probably spring). Permission is granted for others to use the information on these web pages for preparation of a proposal to Unicode for a standard encoding of Cuneiform. The proposed sign list itself is free of any restrictions.