This paper discusses a truncated-cone chlorite vessel currently held in the Miho Museum,
Japan. It was probably produced around 2300-2200 BCE in the Halil Rud Valley or Jiroft …

E. Velásquez, A. Davletshin, J. Nielsen, M. Cossich, M. Vega, R. Rodríguez, R. Valencia y T.
Valdez 252 decolonial (en adelante descolonial, siguiendo las normas del español) …

Computational methods and machine learning have been applied to problems in the study
of Proto-Elamite writing in recent years, with results which confirm that the available digital …

In this thesis, we describe the first-ever large-scale computational analysis of the partially-
deciphered proto-Elamite (PE) script. This script was used to write economic accounts which …

This contribution explores modern and traditional approaches to the decipherment of
ancient writing systems. It surveys methods used by paleographers and epigraphers and …

Among the indicators of the value and power ascribed to statues in Mesopotamia, reuse is a
particularly significant one. By studying some of the best-documented examples of the …

In the second issue of Cryptologia, way back in 1977, a contributor noted,“The golden age of
decipherment may have been the first half of the nineteenth century, when the ancient …

In this article, we study the inscription on the reverse of Susa Mathematical Text No.\, 2, a
clay tablet held in the collection of the Louvre Museum and thought to date from between …

The frequent use of ideographic signs in the cuneiform writing system often obscures divine
names in Hittite texts. The sign IŠTAR can designate the theonyms Šavoška or Anzili, for …

In this study I address the previously abandoned, but recently resurrected assumption that
the protoElamite writing system did not disappear but was continuously in use in Iran until …