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Pictures for a language that also had cuneiform.
Also known as: Luwian hieroglyphs
Sometimes confused with: Hittite hieroglyphs
The script used for Luwian in Anatolia alongside cuneiform, in a pictorial script of its own.
Writes Luwian in a pictorial script used alongside cuneiform for the same language.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
The signs face the direction of reading, so a line's orientation is legible from the figures themselves before any sign is identified — the script tells you which way to read it.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Pictorial signs of heads, hands, animals and objects arranged in boustrophedon lines, the figures facing the direction of reading.