Joshua Bowen’ & Megan Lewis, “Learn to Read Ancient Sumerian”, 2020 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Irving Finkel & Jonathan Taylor, “Cuneiform: Ancient Scripts”, 2015.
The book consists of nine (9) chapters listed BELOW.
CHAPTER NUMBER.
#1. Looking Backwards and Forwards.
#2. Going to School.
#3. Who Used Cuneiform Writing.
#4. How do we Understand it, Anyway?
#5. The Scribe Revealed.
#6. What Happened to Cuneiform?
#7. How did it Work?
#8. Counting Days.
#9. Why Study Cuneiform?
SUMMARY.
This is a book as the title says of “Cuneiform: Ancient Scripts”. Page 102 is entitled “Cuneiform Code Chart” and is shown BELOW.
The script is four (4) vowels and fourteen (14) consonants. The vowels are: A E I U; and the consonants are: B D G H K L M N P Q R S T Z. The Mesopotamian script is a syllabary pair of consonant-vowel (CV), and vowel-consonant (VC).
The photography in the book is absolutely beautiful. Gorgeous images of ancient clay tablets. Excellent teaching material for Mesopotamia’ in Irving Finkel & Jonathan Taylor, “Cuneiform: Ancient Scripts”, 2015.
