Team Cuneiform

'cos cuneiform is cool. Koska nuolenpääkirjoitus on siistiä. We're undergrad students from the University of Helsinki.

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

Here finally: a short video showing the very basics of Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform, especially how to actually write on clay. Finnish audio, English subtitles! https://t.co/J4ydpbyYXA

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

@cjdvise @MutaTheCat2022 2/2 DM preferably in Instagram (cooleiform also there) but here works as well, if you'd like me to research this a bit more with dictionaries (for example, if you're planning a tattoo). If it takes more than 15 minutes work I'd like to have a small compensation of my time. -A

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

Râmu 𒊏 𒀀 𒈬: love in Akkadian (Babylonian).

Here you have also pics saying I love you (f(eminine)) & I love you(m(asculine)): in Akkadian you have to express if you love a man or a woman. For loving woman: arâmki, for man: arâmka.

Pics are free to use<3

#AdventCalendar

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

@cjdvise @MutaTheCat2022 The longer version is Sumerian language (pronounced ki ag), I'm not sure if the other one (=the second sign alone) exists, but the pronunciation is correct Akkadian. I've never encountered other words for love, there might be though without me knowing. You can drop me a DM 1/2

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

I've tried to stop using Twitter but I can't help it, I want to say that I'll be present at @RAI69Helsinki. I'm a "student assistant" even though I'm not a student anymore, I have wanted to join RAI from the moment I heard it will be here in my home town in 2024 😍 -A

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

@MutaTheCat2022 It's sadly linguistically impossible in Akkadian. I'd probably add person's name and a sign man/woman (those are used with names almost always), but then use the opposite verbal form. This is my modern though only :) -A

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

@artcrimeprof @anhaduannu97 @sarabmohr @gvkonsta @JanaMatuszak Wow! I have sometimes played around with "how would I mark replicas as replicas" but I (we) have stayed on the safe side of always making clay tablets which are not too close to originals. -A

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

Also, I totally didn't expect anyone there be very excited about cuneiform, but a family member who saw my cuneiform first time, immediately asked do I take commissions 🥰 (yes, I do)

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

I did a thing, after a long break. See more on Instagram: https://t.co/6qfF9pw0z2

[Archaeology in Iraq @AinIraq]

⭕️ Take a look at the electronic version of the Gilgamesh epic in all its versions and forms, published by the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, at the “electronic Babylonian Library” (eBL) Project.
ℹ️ https://t.co/KRiSwoac9G

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

@Thelytoky2999 @bixlereid The most common Sumerian phrase which helpfully even has its own Wikipedia page: https://t.co/zIfqOxzIHd

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

@WhoIsLikeYouMin I got interested in cuneiform and therefore started Akkadian. I had never had before that any special interest to any Semitic languages or ancient or biblical languages, but Akkadian made me curious about everything "close" to it!

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

What age I started learning languages (some are forgotten though):
0 Finnish
6 Swedish
9 English
13 Modern Greek
15 Japanese
16 German
20 Akkadian
21 Sumerian
22-25: Hebrew, Elamite, Classical Chinese (all briefly)

I miss starting a new language but I can't choose the next one!

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

@benwbrum It was a short course at our university, we had an expert from abroad. We used no real book but just some prints. I can't remember theirthe expert's name though...

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

@dawoodmajoka I've learned the alphabet (and forgot most of it by now), but the textbook I had was horrible and killed my interest to learn more. I wish to get back to Arabic at some point!

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

One of the most powerful texts written in Assyrian, or well, any language <3

(I've also translated this poem... Sadly some things here work better in English than in Finnish)

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

😍 Wow!

[Carter Rote @CarterRote]

Got to help set up a game night and play an Epic of Gilgamesh D&D campaign in the Mesopotamian gallery at @orientalinst

This kind of event promotes such meaningful engagement with the museum collection. #Gilgamesh

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

Had the students making their own cartouches last week. They were pretty great at it! #ancientEgypt #hieroglyphs

[. @IrisKamil]

A princess & a prince, an Assyrian port, a roguish merchant, five witnesses. An international éclat, a hostage, a ransom, and death threats.

This is one of the most exciting texts I have read and my favourite correspondence.

Enter Aššur-taklāku at the height of his mischief!

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

@nikinopi @matt_boot_ Great! Drop me a DM (I don't know if Twitter is messing up something or if it's about your account settings, but I can't send a message to you)

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

@matt_boot_ 1) Japanese, I have been upper-intermediate but have forgotten a lot. Maybe German which I have also forgotten a lot, now I'm close to beginner level
2) Finnish (native), Swedish. Japanese, to some amount. (English, but only as a medium)
3)writing or video calls could either work

[Team Cuneiform @cooleiform]

@OlaWikander I've always thought it's a simple hobby to talk about in simple terms. Most of my hobbies - as well as jobs I've had - have never existed in the text book vocabulary lists, not only because not so common, but also because they just need more advanced language to be explained. -A