At 11:24 +0100 2002-05-02, William Overington wrote: > >> "Stroke order"? > >Well, what is meant by stroke order?
The order in which strokes are written. Cuneiform wordlists are organized on this principle. So all words beginning with a single horizontal stroke come first, then all those beginning with a double horizontal stroke, and so on. >On the matter of cuneiform writing, I read that originally people were >unable to decipher the writing. How did the writing come to be deciphered >please? In relation to Egyptian Hieroglyphics I am familiar with the story >of the Rosetta Stone, where the same text was inscribed in three languages, >one of which used Egyptian Hieroglyphics and one of which was a known >language. How did cuneiform become deciphered please? Does anyone know of >any articles about this on the web please? Please use Google to find such documents. It is easily done. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
