Irving Finkel & Jonathan Taylor, “Cuneiform: Ancient Scripts”, 2015.

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?

 

Here I presented: Irving Finkel & Jonathan Taylor, “Cuneiform: Ancient Scripts”, 2015.

 

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.