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1. Proto Elamite Corpus

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   Sign Classification and Phonetic Ambiguity
   Attempts at decipherment, largely focused on identifying potential logograms corresponding to known Elamite deities or bureaucratic titles, have yielded inconsistent results. Scholars generally agree that certain repetitive numerical notations (often involving base-60 or a novel base-17 system ) represent accounting data. However, the non-numerical signs present significant ambiguity. For example, the sign $\…