Here I present: Herbert Tolman, “Ancient Persian Lexicon & Texts”, 1908, PART THREE (3).
INTRODUCTION.
I mentioned “petroglyph” Khomeyn and Golpayegan PERSIA archeological sites in the earlier blog post (shown ABOVE). The transition from “petroglyphs” to cuneiform’ writing in Sumerian’ is the illustration ABOVE. The script of Old/New Persian is a syllabary, easy to memorize, unlike numerous Sumerian cuneiforms.
The list of words BELOW are New Persian and Sumerian of the illustrated diagram ATOP.
NEW PERSIAN.
FISH ماهی manpani
BIRD پرنده parandeh
AX تبر tabar
ARROW فلش falash
BOTTLE بطری betri
SUMERIAN.
FISH 𒄩 ku₆ 6
BIRD 𒄷 mušen 4
AX 𒄑 ĝeš 3
ARROW 𒋾 ti 5
BOTTLE … 14
The region between the Tigris & Euphrates rivers is part of Persian Gulf flow. Ideas have been flowing in the since prehistoric times. Herbert Cushing Tolman, “Ancient Persian Lexicon & Texts”, 1908 remains valuable to those who study this region of the world.
