on Thu, 2 May 2002 11:24:12 +0100 William Overington wrote: >I have no knowledge whatsoever as to whether such an >illustration showing stroke order is unnecessary, just right or insufficient >for the needs of researchers seeking to study cuneiform writing.
Wedge ordering can be useful for determining difficult to read signs, including signs that are effaced or otherwise damaged. It is also one criterion useful in determining scribal schools and scribal hands. >On the matter of cuneiform writing, I read that originally people were >unable to decipher the writing. How did the writing come to be deciphered >please? The trilingual Behistun inscription was crucial to the decipherment of cuneiform. For example, on the web see: <http://www.livius.org/be-bm/behistun/behistun01.html> I try to practice "trigonometric philology" ;-) I.e., "It's always better to triangulate from two knowns to an unknown." Respectfully, Dean A. Snyder Senior Information Technology Specialist, Humanities Krieger School of Arts & Sciences The Johns Hopkins University 426A Gilman Hall/3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218 410 516-6021 office 410 961-8943 portable