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Lū šulmum ina ūm waldim ša mār ilim: something like "greetings in the day of the birth of the god's son" in Babylonian (Akkadian)
This cuneiform is made on real clay last year :)
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We were yesterday in @tieteidenyo ("Night of Sciences") teaching cuneiform. Dozens of people of all ages visited :) #LearnCuneiform
In the same room there were also ancient boardgames and other cool stuff, so as an extra pic a dice game (and togas(?))
wardu: '(male) slave' in Akkadian.
Mesopotamia was powered by slave labor, but the distinction between slaves and free people was more ambiguous than in many societies.
In pic: part of Sumerian "Standard of Ur" showing king seeing war prisoners
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UD 'sun' or 'day' in Sumerian.
This sign has a beautiful origin as a pictogram of the rising sun (the topmost). Later it becomes so abstract that I always struggle to recognize it...
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ṭuppu: 'clay tablet' in Akkadian.
Well, not a lot explanation needed today. Clay tablets were the heart of the written culture in Mesopotamia. Any ideas how many of them archaeologists have found? That's my favourite fact of cuneiform.
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tappû: 'comrade, fellow' in Akkadian (Babylonian).
This word is used by Gilgamesh and Enkidu of each other, so I chose an impression of an Assyrian seal featuring those two fighting the Bull of Heaven.
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šarru 𒈗 : 'king' in Akkadian.
It's a logogram consisting two Sumerian signs: LÚ 'man' and GAL 'great', so king is a great man. In the left you see how it changes over time.
In the right, king Hammurabi and the sun god Šamaš.
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ṣēru: 'steppe, open country' in Akkadian (also: 'back')
Mesopotamians often called everything outside the city "steppe". We in Finland sometimes use 'forest' similarly - not everything is steppe in Mesopotamia or forest here, but close enough :D
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sisû 𒀲 𒆳 𒊏: 'horse' in Akkadian.
One of my favourite animal names in Akkadian, since it is written with nice Sumerian logograms meaning "foreign donkey". Donkeys were more common than horses in Mesopotamia.
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qaqqadu: 'head' in Akkadian
Here you see the evolution of this cuneiform sign from earliest drawn pictograms to more and more abstract forms.
Nice to know: Mesopotamians often used 'ṣalmat qaqqadi(m)', 'black-heads', to refer all people.
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Purattu: river Euphrates in Akkadian, one of the great rivers which eventually give the area name Mesopotamia, 'between rivers'.
Word 'Euphrates' comes from the very same word, through Persian and Greek.
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Purattu: river Euphrates in Akkadian, one of the great rivers which eventually give the area name Mesopotamia, 'between rivers'.
Word 'Euphrates' comes from the very same word, through Persian and Greek.
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Ninda: 'bread, food' in Sumerian. Here you see how much the sign has changed in two thousand years.
Featuring also some of the cuneiform cookies (gingerbread) we did last year. Actual cuneiform bread is something I still haven't seen..!
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kugbabbar 𒆬 𒌓 : silver in Sumerian (kaspum in Akkadian). 'kug' means 'metal', and 'babbar' 'white', same sign also means 'bright' - and the basic meaning is 'sun'.
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immeru: 'sheep' in Akkadian.
One of the most important domestic animals in Mesopotamia and also a very frequent offering to gods.
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Giš 𒄑 'tree' in Sumerian.
Mesopotamia doesn't have many trees, and kings often wrote how they got Lebanese cedar by going through great trouble. I find it a bit funny as a person living in a country consisting mostly forest :)
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ekallum ��𒃲: 'palace' in Akkadian (from Sumerian egal, 'big/great house').
Here you see a beautiful 100 year old drawing of Sargon II's palace. It was built around 700 BCE - what a magnificent palace it was!
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Here you see two forms of the sign dingir, meaning 'god' (ilum in Akkadian). Originally a pictogram of star, and can mean also heaven/sky.
If a Mesopotamian char has this kind of a headwear with (many) horns, it's a god/other supernatural being.
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Here you see two forms of the sign dingir, meaning 'god' (ilum in Akkadian). Originally a pictogram of star, and can mean also heaven/sky.
If a Mesopotamian char has this kind of a headwear with (many) horns, it's a god/other supernatural being.
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bēlu(m): 'lord, master, owner' in Akkadian. Here written with the usual way, with the logogram EN (= 'lord' in Sumerian). It's very often used word in cuneiform tablets we have: the standard form of addressing your superior (king or other boss)
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