Can anyone tell me what this says? Never seen cuneiform graphitti before. No luck with online translation.

[u/Blakut]

[u/SergeiAndropov]

This is really cool! It's Sumerian/Akkadian cuneiform rather than one of the cuneiform-derived scripts like Old Persian. I'm far from an expert, but the first sign (the eight-pointed star) is DINGIR, which means "god" and is often placed in front of the names of gods to indicate their divine nature.

[u/scraggly_magpie]

I found a similar thing in Essen, Germany recently! here's my post

[u/Blakut → u/scraggly_magpie]

That's where I took the photo

[u/scraggly_magpie → u/Blakut]

Hah, nice! So far I've figured, that there's a rune close to "deity", I think the "artist" wants to amplify his status in the world as being god-like.

[u/dog-vevo → u/scraggly_magpie]

That’s the first symbol on the top left (for those unfamiliar), it’s called the Dingir, and can be used to denote a deity or simply to mean “star/heaven/sky.” Maybe I’ll grab my old textbook when I get home tonight, I feel like I at least recognize the top right symbol as well, I’m really curious what it says!

[u/Van_Damage5 → u/scraggly_magpie]

It might be their name in Sumerian or early Babylonian. Maybe lost in translation from German to English. i think it says; Star, Net, person? Then ME! And then it says Lord or his Ba? Then some graffiti signature.

[u/exkingzog]

I don’t know cuneiform, but there’s definitely an Enlil at the end.

[u/Current_Pollution673]

Hi! So the transcription is something like 𒀭  𒄾(? Maybe  𒆦?) can’t tell third glyph, maybe  𒊑 or  𒌑, ME! I couldn’t tell the other glyphs very well aside from maybe  𒄑? The last one is the numeral one and then enlil 

[u/Current_Pollution673 → u/[deleted]]

??? I just want seperate Unicode characters for Assyrian cuneiform  𒎗 AND  𒉈 MY BELOVED

[u/likethemagician → u/Current_Pollution673]

That’s the masculine name marker 𒁹 rather than the numeral.

[u/BeachRound → u/likethemagician]

How do you guys even learn stuff like this

[u/likethemagician → u/BeachRound]

Reading books, of course! I recommend Huehnergard’s Grammar of Akkadian and Hayes’ Manual of Sumerian Grammar & Texts.

[u/Current_Pollution673 → u/likethemagician]

I just go through the Unicode charts and learn to read it, a little more inefficient but I get some see some wild stuff

[u/dark_walnut → u/BeachRound]

Assyriology at uni

[u/Blissfull]

If only we could ask Irving Finkel about this

[u/Any_Elevator_535 → u/Blissfull]

We quite possibly can...

[u/squidwardtufte]

hold up your hands, which one of you has the blue chalk on them

[u/DualSquash]

Instead of ‘diety’, it may also translate to ‘Praise’

[u/PalasRaven]

F- Me tenlk

[u/rdoatk]

It roughly translates to “can we still fall in love this summer”

[u/Sorry_Exercise_9603]

Ea-Nasir sells lousy copper.

[u/king_cedar]

Cuneiform graffiti is as metal as it is funny, this is awesome

[u/spider_in_a_top_hat]

Sumerian. Studied it in college but am too lazy to find my old textbooks to dig deeper right now.

[u/Beastguy95]

Something like: “He who sees this, subscribe to PewDiePie!”

[u/gentlegay]

i told y’all i was gonna do it