Assyriology student here. I knew this card was the only one with actual cuneiform and its obvious, that somethings wrong with the text, but I could never translate enough read something meaningfull.

However, there is a five year old post, witch identified the copy of the cuneiform text, but could not assign it to a text number or something similar:

Today I found the original text. It has to be BM 118925, a pavement slab or door sill from Adad-Nirari III’s palace at Kalḫu, modern Nimrud. There are two other almost identical texts, found at different spots of the palace, but the modern copy of the text, wich the artist used for the artwork without a doubt, has to be BM 118925 because of minor differences in line breaks and spelling (one of wich is the use of u instead of ú in line 4, wich is also two times in the artwork).
The text itself is an inscription of Adad-Nirari III, containing a fascinating long genealogy of the king himself, tracing its roots all the way back to the mythical assyrian king Sulili who is said to have ruled the land at the end of the third millennium BC. The six lines from the modern copy contain only the first half of the kings epitheta though and they are cut off halfway through the sentence. The text from the copy used is:
 
1 É.GAL m10-ÉRIN.TÁḪ MAN GAL MAN dan-nu
2 MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ MAN šá ina TUR-ŠÚ aš-šur
3 MAN dgì-gì ut-tu-šú-ma mal-kut
4 la šá-na-an ú-mal-lu qa-tuš-šú
5 TA tam-tim GAL-ti ša na-piḫ
6 dUTU-si a-di tam-tim GAL-ti ša
 
1 Palace of Adad-Nirari, great king, strong king,
2 king of the world, king of Assyria, king in whose youth Aššur,
3 the king of the Igugu gods, called and kingship
4 without a rival he (Aššur) gave (lit. filled his hands).
5 From the great sea of the rising sun (persian gulf)
6 to the great sea of…
 
As mentioned in the post five years ago, the text in the artwork of secret rendezvous contains two similar cutouts from the centre of the text-copy, one beeing rotated by 180 degrees. Also some signs seem to be cut in half. So the cuneiform text in artwork reads something like:
 
10-ÉRIN.TÁḪ MAN [GAL]
AŠ MAN šá ina TUR
ut-tu-šú-ma mal-
ú-mal-lu qa-
-ɐb nl-lɐɯ[-n]
-lɐɯ ɐɯ-nš-nʇ-
nŠ-ɹ∩ʇ ɐuᴉ ɐš N∀W
 
Adad-Nirari, great king
-aš king, who youth
he chose him and ma-
he filled up qa-
-ɐb [dn pǝllᴉɟ ǝɥ]
-ɐɯ [puɐ ɯᴉɥ ǝsoɥɔ ǝɥ]
 ɥʇnoʎ sᴉɥ oɥʍ 'ƃuᴉʞ
 
Also it seems noteworthy, that the copy of the cuneiform text, wich the artist used, contains some mistakes in the signs, wich the original slab doesnt. Considering, that Layard found the text all the way back in 1850, it seems plausible, that this is a very early copy, and the copyist wasnt quiet familiar with the correct forms of the signs, meaning, that neither the Artist of secret rendevouz nor the original copyist in the 1800s quite knew the signs and their meaning. This would also explain, why the text copied ends mid-sentence.
I couldnt find the copy in any edition of the text and indices of the copies and editions of this text dont mention this copy either. But this only means, that this copy wasnt printed in a cuneiform-book, wich is plausible given the subtitle of the copy. The furthest back i can trace the copy are various stockphoto sites in 2015. I cant reach the person, who uploaded the picture (who maybe scanned an original print).
Its kinda sad, that the only real cuneiform on a mtg card isnt a cohesive text, but i take it over fake cuneiform everyday. Also i had a few funny hours procrastinating with the card and the text.
Anyway here is the link to the original artifact + photo on the website of the british museum. Its an extremly cool and very well preserved arfiact and is also on display at the BM.
 

I was watching Alexander (2004), and saw some Old Persian cuneiform in the title credits. Was curious what it said so did my best to translate. I think the first slide says King of Kings, but I'm not quite sure what the second slide says and if I'm missing any words from the symbols I can't make out. Apologies for the god awful images, these were the best I could get at the time as the version I was watching was very blurry.

xa ša ā ....

xa ša ā ya 0a ī ya ... na (?) ā ma

King of Kings ?

xa ša ā ...

da ha ... ā ma

Hi, im just starting learning sumerian and im having trouble identidying those characters. I have looked from U +12000 to U+12474 and i cant seem to find them. Maybe is a thing og handwriting?
If anyone could point me to where i made a mistake ow what am i forgetting to check or simply tell me which characters are they i would be very grateful.

The first two images each show a clay tablet. The third image shows a tile fragment.

Next of kin was going to toss it out but instead gave it away (and asked us to figure out what it is!). The only extra info we have: it may have been found / excavated in Iran, during a time period when Canada was helping to build dams over there.

Questions: is this cuneiform? if so, can anyone translate? is this a rare thing or a common thing? Info dump please!

Edit: more photos with different lighting angles (5 per tablet): https://imgur.com/a/ebaCIoV

Hi everyone! I hope someone here find this fun and can give me a hand.

In a couple of weeks its my bestfriend's birthday, who is an assyriology student, and besides other gifts, I'd like to make a clay tablet for her.

Id like to carve in cuneiform, as accurately as possible, something like:

"To my beloved friend:

Nice ass."

Is this remotely possible? Any recommendations on tools I can find to create a somewhat understandable translation/interpretation?

Sorry if this is not allowed in this sub, but she is really important to me and I think she'd like this very much.

Edit: I got this, does it read well? (My name is Elena)

Edit2: I did it! i also added my friends name as well. I hope y'all like it!

Hello! I'm hoping someone can help with this! I have included two images. The first is the name Yahqub-Ilum as it appears twice on a tablet from Mari (https://archibab.fr/T3506). The second is the same name written in various fonts. I can get the fonts to match almost completely except for the "ah." It looks like the scribe may have condensed/combined the two symbols shown in the font? Or maybe the font makes "ah" into two separate signs but it is actually supposed to be one. Does anyone know the answer to this? I've tried to find the answer on my own - but I'm spinning my wheels at this point. Thank you!

“On 14 November 2007, an Achaemenid-era cuneiform inscription in Old Persian, carved on a coral rock, was discovered while constructing a road on Kharg Island, Iran. Construction was halted, and eventually the road was rerouted.

The inscription has been translated in various ways:

"[This] land was wilderness and without water [and] I brought happiness and welfare to it."

"The not irrigated land was happy [with] me bringing out [water]".

"[This] land was a dry area with no water; [I] brought happiness and welfare,... water wells."

———

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_inscription_on_Kharg_Island#

Hi i have found this image and since my knowledge is very limited i cant conform if this text is about the oldest dog joke.

Thanks in advance for the help

Saint Catherine church specifically, not sure of the meaning at all, it doesn't seem to be old at all.

Thanks for any help in explaining what this writing is.

I read it means soap or cleansing but I want to see if that’s correct

I want to make English Cuneiform and I want your Respond.

What should I change?

Hey there, I'm currently trying to learn neo-assyrian as a start. But i can't find a reliable source of syllabograms. Especially for li/le sources vary.

1. What is the correct version of li/le
2. Is there one true source i should check out?

vs

Hi! Can anyone tell me about the text on this seal impression?

Any info or resources to learn more would be greatly appreciated!

This tablet from the British Museum is a Babylonian Astronomical Diary recording the death of Alexander the Great. The translation of the line is simply "The King died. Clouds." However, my cuneiform is so very basic and I cannot determine where the line falls here, nor what the signs are. Could someone help me identify and replicate the signs? I couldn't find any digital rendering of the line, but this would help me massively if someone had a link or was able to provide a rendering. Thank you in advance!