Is Enuma Elish originally written in cuneiform handwriting?

Jun 22 2023

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Cuneiform handwriting, developed by the Sumerians around 3400 BCE, is among the earliest known systems of writing. This distinctive script employs wedge-shaped marks created with a stylus on clay tablets, which were then baked to preserve their content. The Enuma Elish was written in Akkadian, a Semitic language used across Mesopotamia. The cuneiform script lent itself well to this since it had evolved by the time of the Enuma Elish (around 1100 BCE) to accommodate the phonetic and logographic complexities of Akkadian.

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