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Sumerian cuneiform tablet
Hieroglyphic Luwian text
Persian cuneiform from the Xerxes inscription at Persepolis
Sumerian inscription from a temple at Nippur
The number 258,458 expressed in the sexagesimal (base 60) system of the Babylonians and in cuneiform.
Examples illustrating the evolution of cuneiform writing.
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