User talk:Wilstrup

Reply to Sumerian direction query

Hi, in response to your query, I cannot read cuneiform (at least not without consulting expertise help!) and I don't know the answer off-hand. I searched google-books for [Sumerian "left to right"] and also [Sumerian "right to left"], and found a number of sources saying both. (Try it!) One book for younger readers says that the scribes used left to right, top to bottom on side one of the tablet, then flipped the tablet over and wrote right to left, bottom to top. Others say that the direction of left to right stabilized around 2300 BC. Cheers, Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 23:30, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

• Ah, thank you. In ED we actually do have samples, where the scribe apparently flipped the tablet both horizontally and vertically. Rotating this kind of tablets does look like a right-to-left script, but with the fist line at the bottom. The practice of rotating the tablet top-to-bottom is not attested after Early Dynastic II, as far as I know. But thanks for the clarification. Wilstrup (talk) 23:46, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

English

Hi - thanks for your work patrolling new pages. Just a note - for pages that are purely in a foreign language we usually tag them with {{Notenglish}} rather than a A1,A3, or G1 tag. I suspect in this case these will be A7's (16 year old kids) but without translation it's hard to tell.  7  08:17, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip.Wilstrup (talk) 08:22, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Sure  7  08:26, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

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