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Writing Phases

We are able to distinguish five stages of early writing at Susa; these are tokens and bullae, numerical tablets, numero-ideographic tablets, Uruk IV style tablets, early proto-Elamite tablets, and late proto-Elamite tablets. Numero-ideographic tablets from Iran can be distinguished from Mesopotamian ones only by the order of the numerical signs and non numerical signs; in Iran the numerical signs follow the object they qualify, whereas the reverse order is found in texts from Mesopotamia. There is no apparent difference between Mesopotamian and Iranian objects from the first two groups (i.e. tokens and bullae, and numerical tablets). Proto-Elamite tablets, both early and late, can be distingiushed in a number of ways, based on an analysis of structure and content.

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