The Department of Archeology at the College of Arts and History at the University of Kirkuk presented a joint symposium
The Department of Archeology at the College of Arts/University of Samarra, in cooperation with the Department of History at the College of Education-Hawija/University of Kirkuk, presented a joint scientific symposium on “The Mechanism of Dealing with Cuneiform Writings.”
The workshop included the beginnings and development of cuneiform writings, as well as the change in cuneiform form signs throughout the ages, and how to deal with numbers and cuneiform texts by researchers and students through photography and the reproduction stage up to the translation stage, and the final formula for translating cuneiform texts.
The symposium dealt with another part, including the practical aspect, which was represented in bringing the clay dough and how to prepare it, then arranging, cutting the number and the shape required for the clay figure, up to the last stage, represented by the mechanism of writing on the number.
The symposium provided a notation of some clay figures and a review of some statistics that the students wrote.
The symposium was presented by Assistant Professor Dr. Riyad Ibrahim Muhammad from the Department of Archeology at the college, Assistant Professor Dr. Rasha Abdel Wahab Mahmoud, the department, and Assistant Professor Dr. Ibrahim Hussein Hamad from the Department of History in the Hawija Education / the University of Kirkuk.
