Anatolian hieroglyphs
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Anatolian hieroglyphs are an indigenous logographic script native to central Anatolia, consisting of some 500 signs. They were once commonly known as Hittite hieroglyphs, but the language they encode
An inscription from Hama, in Anatolian hieroglyphs
Anatolian hieroglyphs surround a figure in royal dress. The inscription, repeated in cuneiform around the rim, gives the seal owner's name: the ruler Tarkasnawa of Mira. This famous bilingual inscription provided the first clues for deciphering Anatolian hieroglyphs.
The Marash Lion, with Anatolian hieroglyphs
Marash Lion side view
Luwian language
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Luwian, sometimes known as Luvian or Luish, is an ancient language, or group of languages, within the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. The ethnonym Luwian comes from Luwiya – the
Anatolian hieroglyphs
…to central Anatolia, consisting of some 500 signs. They were once commonly known as Hittite hieroglyphs, but the language they encode proved to be Luwian, not Hittite, and so the term Luwian hieroglyphs is increasingly also used. They are typologically similar to Egyptian hieroglyphs, but do not derive…
Luwian hieroglyph BOS (cow)
Luwian hieroglyphs at Hattusa
Stele of Sultanhan, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara
Basalt bowl with engraved inscription in Luwian hieroglyphics found in Babylon, southern Iraq, in the 1880s and now in the collection of the British Museum