Un documentaire d'Arte retrace le déchiffrement de l'élamite linéaire, écriture employée vers la fin du IIIe millénaire avant J.-C. par la civilisation d'Elam, voisine de la Mésopotamie.
Documentaire disponible jusqu'au 25 novembre.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/109776-000-A/a-la-recherche-de-l-ecriture-oubliee/
#écriture #Antiquité #Mésopotamie #Elam #Elamite #LinearElamite #Arte

#Elamite #ElamiteLineaire #LinearElamite ⬆️ #FrancoisDesset

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Discovered on the train, thanks @arte

The linear Elamite writing.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/109776-000-A/a-la-recherche-de-l-ecriture-oubliee/

The oldest known phonetic notation: 4000 years old 😆!
Recently deciphered by a Frenchman, François Desset. It had been said to be indecipherable due to lack of reading material. The discovery of new material made it possible to decipher.

And of course there is open source font for it "Hatamti" though no assigned Unicode, it's mapped on the latin alphabet.
https://anrt-nancy.fr/en/projets/the-missing-scripts-2021-elamite-lineaire

#LinearElamite #Font

”In July 2022, the French scholar François Desset and a team of co-authors published what they claimed was proof of a decipherment of Linear Elamite, a writing system used on the Iranian plateau around four thousand years ago. The paper appeared in the Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, one of the leading Assyriology journals. Linear Elamite had eluded understanding ever since its discovery by archaeologists at the site of Susa in south-west Iran in 1903. It can’t match the significance of cuneiform or Egyptian hieroglyphs, but it is one of the oldest known forms of writing in the world.“

London Review of Books: Beyond Mesopotamia: Linear Elamite Deciphered

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/tom-stevenson/beyond-mesopotamia

#archaeology #LinearElamite

#AncientWriting system #LinearElamite has been deciphered. that's really exciting - and I missed the memo when it happened in 2022

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/tom-stevenson/beyond-mesopotamia #science #archaeology #writing

Tom Stevenson on the deciphering of Linear Elamite — https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/tom-stevenson/beyond-mesopotamia
#HackerNews #TomStevenson #LinearElamite #Deciphering #AncientScripts #Mesopotamia #Linguistics

A #review of a couple of #books on the invention of the #alphabet in #scripts used for #writing:

"Alphabet Politics", The New York Review (https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/01/19/alphabet-politics-the-greatest-invention-silvia-ferrara/ or https://archive.is/rfWaQ).

#History #Elamite #LinearElamite #Akkadian #Cuneiform #Script #Language #BookReview

Reading about #Deciphering Mary #Stuart's lost letters from 1578-1584 in https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2022.2160677 I wonder if much older #phonographic or #logographic writing systems, which are not #encrypted as such ... are always as "easy" to #decipher.
Had the #Elamicon deciphering tool in my bookmarks, still looks interesting for a #layperson:
https://center-for-decipherment.ch/tool/

#Phonogram #Logogram #Entzifferungstool #LinearElamite

"Linear Elamite, a writing system used in what is now Iran, may reveal the secrets of a little-known kingdom bordering Sumer" - #SmithsonianMagazine #LinearElamite #Elam #Linguistics #AncientHistory