"The writing system of Akkad and Babylon was almost entirely syllabic" No, they had a relatively standardized syllabary embedded in hundreds of other signs whi

"The writing system of Akkad and Babylon was almost entirely syllabic" No, they had a relatively standardized syllabary embedded in hundreds of other signs which were used throughout the centuries. Only in contexts outside of Akkadia (Hittite, late Elamite) were the reduced syllabaries used in almost pure form. Dessets argument is that Linear Elamite went through such a reduction first. It's like saying Egyptian was the first alphabet, whereas similarly to the situation above they had a relatively standardized abjad embedded in hundreds of other signs. It's a bit opposite to English where we have a standardized alphabet extended through myriads of special signs.