Babylonian script

GPTKB entity

Statements (59)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:Writer
gptkbp:art_style left to right
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:historical_records
gptkb:divination
gptkb:education
gptkb:poetry
gptkb:law
gptkb:temples
gptkb:tableware
gptkb:religion
gptkb:literature
gptkb:government
gptkb:mythology
gptkb:trade
gptkb:rituals
gptkb:Ziggurats
libraries
palaces
commercial transactions
genealogies
land records
astronomical records
scribes
gptkbp:character_type syllabic
logographic
gptkbp:characters over 600 signs
gptkbp:cultural_impact influenced later writing systems
gptkbp:decline after 100 AD
gptkbp:descendant Proto-writing
gptkbp:developed_by gptkb:Sumerian_script
gptkbp:historical_significance one of the earliest writing systems
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Babylonian script
gptkbp:influenced_by Egyptian hieroglyphs
gptkbp:language gptkb:Akkadian
gptkb:Sumerian
Babylonian
gptkbp:notable_works gptkb:Epic_of_Gilgamesh
gptkb:Code_of_Hammurabi
gptkbp:preserved_by stone inscriptions
clay tablets
cylinder seals
gptkbp:related_to gptkb:Ugaritic_script
gptkb:Hittite_script
Elamite script
gptkbp:revival in modern studies
gptkbp:scholarships studied by Assyriologists
gptkbp:time_period circa 3000 BC to 100 AD
gptkbp:used_by gptkb:Babylonians
gptkbp:used_for gptkb:Medicine
gptkb:Mathematics
gptkb:legal_documents
gptkb:astronomy
gptkb:sacred_texts
administrative records
literary texts
cuneiform writing
gptkbp:used_in gptkb:ancient_Mesopotamia
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Akkadian_script
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7