{"id":369,"date":"2016-08-19T20:55:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T20:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/?p=369"},"modified":"2016-10-23T04:36:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T04:36:22","slug":"worlds-oldest-dictionaries-are-4500-year-old-cuneiform-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/2016\/08\/worlds-oldest-dictionaries-are-4500-year-old-cuneiform-tablets\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Oldest Dictionaries Are 4,500-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.messagetoeagle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/worldsoldestdictionary.jpg\" alt=\"Oldest Dictionaries are 4500 year old cuneiform tablets\" \/><br \/>\nThe text is written in the oldest Semitic language yet identified and deciphered with oldest<br \/>\nknow bilingual dictionary, written in Sumerian (a language already deciphered) and Elbaite.<br \/>\nThe Elbaites wrote in columns and used both sides of the tablets.<br \/>\nLists of figures were separated from the totals by a blank column.<br \/>\nTreaties, description of wars and anthems to the gods were also recorded on tablets.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.messagetoeagle.com\/worlds-oldest-dictionaries-are-4500-year-old-cuneiform-tablets-discovered-in-ebla\/#ixzz4HoW8BRPR\">Read more messagetoeagle.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The text is written in the oldest Semitic language yet identified and deciphered with oldest know bilingual dictionary, written in Sumerian (a language already deciphered) and Elbaite. The Elbaites wrote in columns and used both sides of the tablets. Lists of figures were separated from the totals by a blank column. Treaties, description of wars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[150,149],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-encyclopedia","tag-ebla","tag-sumerian","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}