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Considerations on the Proto-Euphratic Language (PE)
About this book
Today it is accepted that the first two writing systems of mankind were created independently of each other about 5000 years ago, one of them (the cuneiform script) in Mesopotamia (Iraq), the other (the hieroglyphics) in Egypt. In Egypt, people wrote with ink on papyrus, in Mesopotamia with a reed stylus on palm-sized "tablets" of clay. According to common belief, the Sumerians created the cuneiform script in the city of Uruk â in those days, the largest city in the world.
The author of this monograph attempts to prove that it was not the Sume-
rians, but the indigenous people of Mesopotamia who created writing. These indigenous people, whose name for themselves is not known, are referred to as "Protoeuphratians" in order to be able to identify them, and their language is consequently called "Protoeuphratic (language)" (PE). The front cover shows the remains of the "temple tower" of the city of Uruk and a clay tablet with archaic cuneiform script signs. This monograph is written for both experts and interested lay persons. Let yourself be captured by the magic and mystery of the past ...
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Table of contents
- Considerations on the Proto-Euphratic Language (PE)
- Copyright
- Title
- Contents
- Preface
- I. Introduction
- II. The âPE Questionâ
- III. Writing, Vocabulary and Grammar
- IV. Document Observations
- V. Detail Studies
- VI. âNon-Sumerianâ Sign Combinations, Abandoned and Retained PE Signs, New Sumerian Readings
- VII. Selected PE Personal Names
- Bibliography
- Index of Terms
- Index of Names and Subjects
- Index of Texts
- Abbreviations
- Appendix: Cuneiform Script
- Figures
- Notes