College of Archaeology

The Department of Ancient Iraqi Languages/ College of Archeology/ University of Mosul held a seminar entitled (Italic Cuneiform Marks tenû) on Thursday, February 22, 2024. The seminar was delivered by Assistant Professor Dr. Ahmed Mayser Fadel and part of it was attended by Assistant Professor Dr. Yasser Jaber Khalil, Assistant Dean for Scientific Affairs, and Assistant Lecturer Khalis Abdel Karim. Farman, Assistant Dean for Administrative Affairs and Assistant Professor, Dr. Moaz Habash Khadr, Head of the Department of Ancient Iraqi Languages, and a number of college staff. The seminar was held in Dr. Behnam Abu Al-Sof’s hall in the college.

This research came to shed light on the types of cuneiform signs that have been classified, namely the inclined signs, which lexicographers in the Middle Assyrian era called tenû and distinguished them from the simple signs from which they were derived with varying degrees of inclination.
The research discussed the origins of the term tenû and presented the most important opinions that interpreted its meanings. Then he addressees the first beginnings of the appearance of italic signs in cuneiform writing, explaining the direction of the shape of the signs and their degrees of inclination. Then, the researcher presented all italic signs according to their occurrence in dictionaries, with their symbolic and phonetic values and their most important meanings, in addition to the signs. The italics mentioned within the compounds, taking the standard signs of the modern Sumerian and modern Assyrian eras as applied models in this research, and finally the researcher lists the most important results that we have reached.