ABSTRACT
The word "culture" is commonly used as either a synonym for "civilization" or in reference to the "shared education" of a specific segment of society, the literate people. The cuneiform culture of Susiana could be symbolically represented by a "clay plaque" found at Haft Tappeh and decorated with a composite being interpreted as an Elamite deity. "Akkadian" evidence from Susa complements the scarce evidence in the Elamite language. They are two faces of the same coin. Akkadian was part of the scribal curriculum and was probably taught to Elamite-speaking students. The calendar in Elam was probably lunisolar, like the Babylonian one. Studies on Elamite metrology have been principally focused on the balance-weights found at Susa during the excavations of J. de Morgan and R. de Mecquenem. The hemerology is dated on palaeographic grounds to the late Neo-Elamite period. From a palaeographic point of view, the signs are Neo-Elamite and some of them present original developments.
