Different perspectives of the giant deer bone found in the Unicorn Cave in Germany. Photo: V. Minkus
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with a pointed stylus. Once engraved, they were fired in the sun or in kilns.
Tablet D 714 , in particular, contains a text pertaining to the sale of a plot of
land, in which the name of the god Enlil 'Lord of the Wind', the main deity
of the city of Nippur, also appears repeatedly. Entire administrative
archives and tablet libraries have given us a vivid and direct picture of the
historical and political vicissitudes, social and economic organization,
mythology and religion of the peoples of Mesopotamia, western Iran,
Turkey and Syria. Thanks to the syllabic character of the signs, cuneiform,
born to write Sumerian, was in fact used from the middle of the 3 rd
millennium BC by the Semitic language of the new inhabitants of
Mesopotamia, the Akkadians. It was subsequently used by Babylonian,
Amorite, Aramaic, Assyrian (Semitic languages and dialects), as well as
Hittite (an Indo-European language) and Hurrian (an agglutinating
language that is difficult to classify).
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