#hurrian

foundation tablet (dedication of the temple of Pirigal by Tisari, king of Urkish) | c. 2200 - 2100 BCE | urkish (modern day amuda, syria)

For the un-initiated to start with... bye, have a nice trip. 💖

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Anatolia, or Asia Minor, is a historical West Asian peninsula that constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. 

HITTITE ─ “The Hittites, or the Empire of Hattusa, were an Anatolian people that lived during the Bronze Age, from 1650 B.C.E. to 1190 B.C.E. At their height, the empire encompassed the majority of modern-day Turkey, Lebanon, and Syria.” ─ Hittite Cuneiform Script ─ Hittite Grammar ─ The Chicago Hittite Dictionary Project

HURRIAN ─ “The Hurrians, or Khurrites, were a Near East people that lived from 3000 B.C.E. to 1300 B.C.E. They lived in Anatolia and Mesopotamia.” ─ The Mitanni Empire ─ Hurrian Culture ─ Hurrian Mythology

LUWIAN ─ “The Luwians are a group of Anatolian people that lived from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. They lived in modern-day Turkey.” ─ Luwian Studies ─ Luwian Dictionary

PHRYGIA ─ “The Phrygian people were an Anatolian people that lived from 1200 B.C.E. to 700 B.C.E. They lived in central Anatolia.” ─ Phrygian Language ─ Phrygian Inscriptions

THRACIA ─ “The Thracians were an Indo-European people that lived from the 8th century B.C.E. to 1st century C.E. They lived in the Balkans and Anatolia.” ─ Thracian Information ─ Thracian Culture ─ Thracian Language

UGARIT ─ “Ugarit was an Anatolian civilization that lived from 6000 B.C.E. to 1185 B.C.E. They lived in modern-day northern Syria.” ─ Ugaritic Information ─ Ugarit in the Bible ─ El in Ugaritic Texts

The Levant is a historical West Asian region in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Asia. It spans from the western part of the Arabian Peninsula to northeast Africa.

CARTHAGE ─ “Ancient Carthage, or the Carthaginian Empire, was a Mediterranean civilization that lived from 814 B.C.E. to 146 B.C.E. They lived in modern-day Tunisia.” ─ Carthage Information ─ Carthaginian Religion ─ Carthaginian Archaeology

EGYPT ─ “The Ancient Egyptians were a northeastern African people. They lived in the Nile Valley in Egypt.” ─ Egyptian Information ─ Ancient Egyptian Art ─ Women in Ancient Egypt

PHOENICIA ─ “The Phoenician people were a Mediterranean people that lived from 2500 B.C.E. to 64 B.C.E. They lived in modern-day Lebanon.” ─ Phoenician History ─ Phoenician Alphabet ─ Phoenician and Punic Languages

The oldest song in the world is a hymn to Mother Goddess Nikkal, from the ancient city of Ugarit in Syria.  It was written in 1400 BCE with notation and lyrics in Cuneiform, and was preserved for 3,400 years.

You can find the sheet music here!

Hurrian foundation peg in a shape of a lion accompanied by a stone tablet from town of Urkish.

They were deposited at the foundation of temple of Nergal and contain the oldest example of Hurrian language.

https://www.deviantart.com/conciliarityoftepat/art/Hurrian-Cursive-Cuneiform-809605053

This little bit of conlanging was done on behalf of @danbensen of The Kingdoms of Evil for an alt-history idea of his known as the Saharan Seas. While that scenario is shelved for now, I have permission to post this little bit that came of it.

The idea of the Saharan Seas is that the Sahara Desert does not dry out, and so is never the Sahara “Desert,” but rather a milder land of large lakes, and numerous languages and civilizations unknown in our world - such as including Podzran, the speech of a Hurrian-dominated Egypt. As in the real world, the Hurrians of the Saharan Seas wrote in a cuneiform syllabary by pressing a stylus into clay tablets using a stylus, creating wedge-shaped marks. However, once they settled in Egypt, they adopted the local practice of writing in ink with a reed pen on papyrus. While originally imitating the shapes of cuneiform wedges, over time these shaped were altered to better suit ink-writing, and ligatures evolved, radically changing the form of the signs.