Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967-1975

by Peter Damerow and Robert K. Englund

This comprehensive study of the Proto-Elamite language (ca. 3000 BC) is based on a small archive recovered from the site of Tepe Yahya in southeastern Iran. The authors, two of the leading specialists on the most ancient written texts of the Near East, illuminate the structure of the texts, the numerical sign systems used, and the relation of Proto-Elamite to other protocuneiform writing systems. A computer-generated sign list compares the written...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873655427
• ISBN13: 9780873655422
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.7" x 10.7"