- ISO 15924
Pcun- Family
- Middle Eastern
- Type
- logo-syllabary
- Direction
- UNSPECIFIED
- Baseline
- unspecified
- Word separation
- unspecified
- Ligatures
- unspecified
- Status
- Historical
- Unicode
- true
- Diacritics
- false
- Contextual forms
- false
Proto-Cuneiform emerged towards the end of the fourth millennium B.C.
in ancient Babylonia, a region of Mesopotamia that corresponds with the southern part of modern-day Iraq. This was a pictographic script. The signs were usually made on the soft surface of clay tablets with a stylus made from a reed. The clay tablets were then dried and hardened. Many such tablets have been found in archeological excavations in Uruk (Al Warka in present-day Iraq).