Anatolian hieroglyphs

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Anatolian hieroglyphs
Anatolian hieroglyphs are an indigenous hieroglyphic script native to western Anatolia first appears on Luwian royal seals, from ca. 2000 BC, used to record the Hieroglyphic Luwian language. The script is commonly called Luwian hieroglyphs in English publications. Older (pre-1973) publications use Hittite hieroglyphs. A number of scholars prefer the term Anatolian hieroglyphs. The first monumental inscriptions confirmed as Luwian date to the Late Bronze Age, ca. 14th to 13th centuries BC. And after some two centuries of sparse material the hieroglyphs resume in the Early Iron Age, ca. 10th to 8th centuries. In the early 7th century, the Luwian hieroglyphic script, by then aged some 1,300 years, falls into oblivion.
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