Script - Anatolian Hieroglyphs
Anatolian Hieroglyphs is a historical script used primarily in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age Anatolia and northern Syria, associated with the Luwian language. Within the Unicode character property “Script,” its value designates a distinct category for this writing system, which features pictorial signs representing syllables, logograms, and determinatives. The script appears on monumental stone inscriptions, seals, and lead strips, and its Unicode coverage enables encoding of the nearly 500 known signs. This value distinguishes Anatolian Hieroglyphs from other ancient scripts like cuneiform or Phoenician, preserving its unique typological identity for digital text processing, scholarly analysis, and cross-referencing with archaeological data. The assignment of this value supports accurate rendering, sorting, and searching of texts in the script, which was deciphered in the early 20th century and remains crucial for studying Hittite-era history.