proto-Elamite

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[proh-toh-ee-luh-mahyt] / ˌproʊ toʊˈi ləˌmaɪt /

noun

the Indigenous script of Elam, found on inscriptions and tablets from the fourth millennium b.c.

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Though the treatment of the lions is suggestive of proto-Elamite rather than of early Babylonian models, the design itself is unmistakably of Mesopotamian origin.

From Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition by L. W. (Leonard William) King

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