Are there different types of cuneiform?
The main type of cuneiform, with its inventory of ideograms (including “determinatives” or “classifiers”) and phonetic signs, is a word-syllabic system like the Egyptian, hieroglyphic Hittite, Minoan-Mycenaean, proto-Elamite, and proto-Indic. The Sumerian system seems to be the oldest. What is cuneiform code? Cuneiform law refers to any of the legal codes written in cuneiform script,…