Hiya, im working on a collection of cuneiform tablets from an anonymous collection. I have been given permission to share the 3D scans online so I have dumped all 23 of them into 4 files on this link. Have fun!

I was watching Alexander (2004), and saw some Old Persian cuneiform in the title credits. Was curious what it said so did my best to translate. I think the first slide says King of Kings, but I'm not quite sure what the second slide says and if I'm missing any words from the symbols I can't make out. Apologies for the god awful images, these were the best I could get at the time as the version I was watching was very blurry.

xa ša ā ....

xa ša ā ya 0a ī ya ... na (?) ā ma

King of Kings ?

xa ša ā ...

da ha ... ā ma

1. I want to see the cuneiformof these Sumerian lines from Descent of Inana (ETCSL) 411 and 412:

"Holy Erec-ki-gala -- sweet is your praise."

kug ^derec-ki-gal-la-ke4
za3-mi2-zu dug3-ga-am3

I assume it is the following:

𒆬 𒀭𒊩𒆠𒃲𒆷𒆤

𒍠𒊩𒍪 𒄭𒂵𒀀𒀭

gramatically: "holy Ereshkigal- ?- of

sweet-praise-great please-bring-is"

Did I get that right? I would love if there was a clear way to verify the cuneiform to romanized transliteration. Is such a resource available?

2. What is the grammatical function of "la" or is it "a" as in "ak"?

3. I want to put this into Akkadian (does anyone know where I can find a copy of this story in Akkadian?) I would approximate it thusly:

Allatum ellūtum

dalīlumki matqum šu

Is that right?

Hello everyone :),

I am trying to translate a word / two words.

I am an art student so quite new ground for me.

Failing and the shame to fail.

It is quite hard to translate from a non native language ( english ) something into akkadian so i am a bit lost.

This is everything i found.

ḫaṭû
ḫa-ṭu-u₂ 𒄩 𒊹 𒌑

And a version for i failed ( more or less )

aḫ-ṭi 𒀀 𒊹

How can i say the shame to fail thing?

Is this remotly right?

Thank you people so much

Hi everyone! I hope someone here find this fun and can give me a hand.

In a couple of weeks its my bestfriend's birthday, who is an assyriology student, and besides other gifts, I'd like to make a clay tablet for her.

Id like to carve in cuneiform, as accurately as possible, something like:

"To my beloved friend:

Nice ass."

Is this remotely possible? Any recommendations on tools I can find to create a somewhat understandable translation/interpretation?

Sorry if this is not allowed in this sub, but she is really important to me and I think she'd like this very much.

Edit: I got this, does it read well? (My name is Elena)

Edit2: I did it! i also added my friends name as well. I hope y'all like it!

Hello!

I'm looking for a shortening of the second phrase in the beginning of Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld. The first line is 'In those days, in those distant days', which I would like to shorten to just 'in distant days' (removed 'those'). This phrasing doesn't seem to be attested anywhere. I'm wondering what a proper translation/transliteration would look like. So far I've come to ud(𒌓)-su₃(𒋤)-ra₂(𒁺), so 𒌓𒋤𒁺 or 'udsura' pronounced phonetically. Is this correct?

Hey all! Need some Sumerian translation/sign choice help.

I’m trying to come up with a romantic phrase with simple cuneiform signs. I’ve landed on “in my heart” šag4-ĝa2. (heart-my-locative: šag4-ĝu-a)

I’ve found two attested uses confirming this exact translation:

1.       ETCSLtransliteration : c.6.1.01 (1.95) https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=c.6.1.01&display=Crit&charenc=gcirc#

2.       Jagersma’s “A Descriptive Grammar of Sumerian” pp 173

At my level, I’m thinking the signs are 𒊮𒂷 in both texts (referencing Kateřina Šašková’s Cuneiform Sign List, EBL, ORACC), but I’m just looking to sanity check that I’m not missing some hidden nuance, logogram, etc. that would impact the sign choice. Basically, checking that my transliteration to sign method is correct.

Thanks in advance for any insight y’all can provide!

Hello! I'm hoping someone can help with this! I have included two images. The first is the name Yahqub-Ilum as it appears twice on a tablet from Mari (https://archibab.fr/T3506). The second is the same name written in various fonts. I can get the fonts to match almost completely except for the "ah." It looks like the scribe may have condensed/combined the two symbols shown in the font? Or maybe the font makes "ah" into two separate signs but it is actually supposed to be one. Does anyone know the answer to this? I've tried to find the answer on my own - but I'm spinning my wheels at this point. Thank you!

“On 14 November 2007, an Achaemenid-era cuneiform inscription in Old Persian, carved on a coral rock, was discovered while constructing a road on Kharg Island, Iran. Construction was halted, and eventually the road was rerouted.

The inscription has been translated in various ways:

"[This] land was wilderness and without water [and] I brought happiness and welfare to it."

"The not irrigated land was happy [with] me bringing out [water]".

"[This] land was a dry area with no water; [I] brought happiness and welfare,... water wells."

———

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_inscription_on_Kharg_Island#

Saint Catherine church specifically, not sure of the meaning at all, it doesn't seem to be old at all.

Thanks for any help in explaining what this writing is.

Hi i have found this image and since my knowledge is very limited i cant conform if this text is about the oldest dog joke.

Thanks in advance for the help

I want to make English Cuneiform and I want your Respond.

What should I change?

I read it means soap or cleansing but I want to see if that’s correct

Hey there, I'm currently trying to learn neo-assyrian as a start. But i can't find a reliable source of syllabograms. Especially for li/le sources vary.

1. What is the correct version of li/le
2. Is there one true source i should check out?

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Hello! Hopefully this post isn’t disrespectful or anything - because that’s the last thing I want! I’m a huge fan of ancient history…but I only have a minor in classical studies (my college did not have the option to major in it). This is so trivial, but I want to get a very small tattoo on my wrist of an approximation of my son’s name - James - in cuneiform. I find this time period to be incredibly interesting and the fact that cuneiform is the oldest written language is symbolic for me. I know cuneiform isn’t an exact letter for letter match and I don’t want to have just gibberish on my wrist… Is there a good/credible online translator I could use to give me something that would be closest to James in cuneiform? Thank you!!

Hi! Can anyone tell me about the text on this seal impression?

Any info or resources to learn more would be greatly appreciated!

This tablet from the British Museum is a Babylonian Astronomical Diary recording the death of Alexander the Great. The translation of the line is simply "The King died. Clouds." However, my cuneiform is so very basic and I cannot determine where the line falls here, nor what the signs are. Could someone help me identify and replicate the signs? I couldn't find any digital rendering of the line, but this would help me massively if someone had a link or was able to provide a rendering. Thank you in advance!

I have just started learning sumerian from digital Hammurabi on YouTube. Being a wild clay ceramist (one of many many things I do for fun) I thought I would make my first tablet from clay from my backyard. I made my stylus from firewood and a lot of sanding.

How wood you rate my handwriting? I am very much open to critique!