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    The document discusses the decipherment of Hittite hieroglyphs, which were first noticed in the 19th century in Syria. A bilingual inscription provided clues, and by 1915 linguists made progress reading the script. In the 1930s it was partially deciphered, and in 1973 was confirmed to be the Luwian language.

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    The document discusses the decipherment of Hittite hieroglyphs, which were first noticed in the 19th century in Syria. A bilingual inscription provided clues, and by 1915 linguists made progress reading the script. In the 1930s it was partially deciphered, and in 1973 was confirmed to be the Luwian language.

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    Decipherment

    Hittite hieroglyphs surround a figure in royal dress. The inscription, repeated in cuneiform
    around the rim, gives the seal owner's name: the Hittite ruler Tarkummuwa. This famous
    bilingual inscription provided the first clues for deciphering Hittite hieroglyphs.

    Anatolian hieroglyphs first came to Western attention in the nineteenth century, when European
    explorers such as Johann Ludwig Burckhardt and Richard Francis Burton described pictographic
    inscriptions on walls in the city of Hama, Syria. The same characters were recorded in
    Boğazköy, and presumed by A. H. Sayce to be Hittite in origin.[8]

    By 1915, with the Luwian language known from cuneiform, and a substantial quantity of
    Anatolian hieroglyphs transcribed and published, linguists started to make real progress in
    reading the script.[8] In the 1930s, it was partially deciphered by Ignace Gelb, Piero Meriggi,
    Emil Forrer, and Bedřich Hrozný. Its language was confirmed as Luwian in 1973 by J.D.
    Hawkins, Anna Morpurgo Davies and Günther Neumann, who corrected some previous errors
    about sign values, in particular emending the reading of symbols *376 and *377 from i, ī to zi,
    za.

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