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How to write in Cuneiform

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wewewedxfgdf ◴[] No.45534403[source]
Errrr.... actually that looks like ancient electronics schematics language.

Has anyone considered that possibility?

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100721 ◴[] No.45534418[source]
The ability to harness electricity had not been invented yet, by a few thousand years.

This seems unlikely.

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wewewedxfgdf ◴[] No.45534555[source]
Not so hasty - I'm pretty sure this was powering the Antikithera Mechanism and the ancient roman Analytical Engine and other such early AI devices - so they would have needed some sort of schematic language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery

The Baghdad Battery is the name given to an artifact consisting of a ceramic pot, a tube of copper, and a rod of iron fixed together with bitumen. It was discovered in present-day Khujut Rabu, Iraq in 1936,[1][2] close to the ancient city of Ctesiphon, the capital of the Parthian (150 BC – 223 AD) and Sasanian (224–650 AD) empires, and it is believed to date from either of these periods.[3]

Its origin and purpose remain unclear. Wilhelm König, at the time director of the laboratory of the National Museum of Iraq, suggested that the object functioned as a galvanic cell, possibly used for electroplating, or some kind of electrotherapy. There is no electroplated object known from this period, and the claims are universally rejected by archaeologists. An alternative explanation is that it functioned as a container for magic spells for protection, defense or curses.[2]

Ten similar clay vessels had been found earlier. Four were found in 1930 in Seleucia dating to the Sassanid period. Three were sealed with bitumen and contained a bronze cylinder, again sealed, with a pressed-in papyrus wrapper containing decomposed fiber rolls. They had been held in place with up to four bronze and iron rods sunk into the ground, and their cult meaning and use are inferred. Six other clay vessels were found nearby in Ctesiphon. Some had bronze wrappers with badly decomposed cellulose fibers. Others had iron nails or lead plates.[2]

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1. krapp ◴[] No.45534973[source]
No part of the Antikythera mechanism showed any indications of being electrically powered, rather all reconstructions show it was operated by hand.

There was no "Analytical Engine" in ancient Rome. I don't even know what this could be referring to.

As your link mentions, the "Baghdad Battery" was debunked long ago, it's just a jar for storing scrolls.

The modern symbology of circuit diagrams was invented in the 20th century.

None of those cuneiform structures even work as circuit diagrams.

It's coincidence. The Dendera lightbulb isn't a lightbulb either.