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Title: A New Writing System Discovered in 3rd Millennium BCE Iran
Subtitle: The Konar Sandal 'Geometric' Tablets
Author(s): DESSET, François
Journal: Iranica Antiqua
Volume: 49    Date: 2014   
Pages: 83-109
DOI: 10.2143/IA.49.0.3009239

Abstract :
Four tablets probably written in the second half of the 3rd millennium BCE were recently found in Konar Sandal, an archaeological site in the Halil Rud valley in southeastern Iran. Three of them are bigraphical, with a Linear Elamite inscription and a second inscription in previously unknown signs that are qualified here as ‘Geometric’. The fourth tablet remains enigmatic. Descriptions of the tablets, a study of their signs and semantic structure, and hypotheses concerning their content are given here.

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