Tablettes et fragments proto-élamites Proto-Elamite Tablets and Fragments Textes cunéiformes du Louvre – Tome XXXII
• Proto-Elamite, which emerged in Iran around 3100 BC, is one of the oldest known writing systems anywhere. Although partly derived from proto-cuneiform, invented in Mesopotamia around 3400, proto-Elamite developed in a very original way before disappearing around 2900, without immediately being replaced by any other writing system. Most of the inscribed clay tablets with proto-Elamite were discovered at the site of Susa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jacob L. Dahl, professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford, is continuing efforts to decipher proto-Elamite begun in the early 20th century, presenting here a study for researchers, students and informal learners that examines 121 unpublished tablets and fragments conserved at the Musée du Louvre, home to the world’s largest collection of proto-Elamite texts.
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