Word: epigraphist
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...This season at Ashkelon has been the most productive one yet," said Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages Frank M. Cross, the expedition's Semitic epigraphist...
Professor of Assyriology Giovanni Pettinato was mystified by the writings. Cuneiform is, after all, not a language, only a style of writing. While the epigraphist could recognize the characters, some of them formed words of a language he had never encountered. Pettinato pondered photographs of the tablets for three months, then cracked the code. Sumerian characters had been used to write an early Western Semitic tongue he dubbed "Eblaite." On other tablets, straight Sumerian was written, functioning as an official language, as Latin did in medieval Europe...
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