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XXVIII. A Cuneiform Tablet from Boghaz Keui with Docket in Hittite Hieroglyphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Among the fragmentary tablets from Boghaz Keui which are in my possession is one with a docket attached to it in Hittite hieroglyphs (No. I). It is the first evidence yet discovered of the contemporaneity of the hieroglyphs and cuneiform, and I therefore give a facsimile of it in spite of its very fragmentary nature. The cuneiform characters were, as usual, impressed upon the clay prior to its being baked in the kiln; the docket was cut after the clay had been baked. As will be seen, the tablet is dated in the reign of Arnuwandas, the last king of the Hittite empire.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1912

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