Hittite hieroglyph

noun

1

Hittite hieroglyphs plural : a system of writing known from inscriptions from Asia Minor and especially northern Syria dating from about 1500 b.c. to about 600 b.c. and composed of pictorial symbols partly ideographic and partly phonetic in which the language Hiėroglyphic Hittite was written

2

: a character in the Hittite hieroglyphs

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