A NEW WRITING SYSTEM DISCOVERED IN 3 RD MILLENNIUM BCE IRAN: THE KONAR SANDAL 'GEOMETRIC' TABLETS

François Desset (1, 2)

1 University of Tehran
2 Archéorient - ARCHEORIENT - Environnements et sociétés de l'Orient ancien

Four tablets probably written in the second half of the 3rd millennium BCE were recently found in Konar Sandal, an archaeological site in the Halil Rud valley in southeastern Iran. Three of them are bigraphical, with a Linear Elamite inscription and a second inscription in previously unknown signs that are qualified here as 'Geometric'. The fourth tablet remains enigmatic. Descriptions of the tablets, a study of their signs and semantic structure, and hypotheses concerning their content are given here.

Mots clés: Iran; Konar Sandal; Bronze Age; writing system; Linear Elamite; Geometric writing; Iran

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire; Art et histoire de l'art; Héritage culturel et muséologie; Histoire

François Desset. A NEW WRITING SYSTEM DISCOVERED IN 3 RD MILLENNIUM BCE IRAN: THE KONAR SANDAL 'GEOMETRIC' TABLETS. Iranica Antiqua, 2014, ⟨10.2143/IA.49.0.3009239⟩. ⟨hal-03471097⟩