What civilization's writing system did Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann contribute to the decipherment and understanding?
Ernst Förstemann Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann (Danzig, September 18, 1822 – Charlottenburg, November 4, 1906) was a German historian, mathematician, doctor of linguistics and librarian, director of the Saxon State Library (German: "Sächsische Landesbibliothek" ) in Dresden. He is known as a founder of onomastics and folk etymology studies in Germany, and also for his seminal contributions made in the early years of Mayanist research, towards the decipherment and understanding of calendrical elements in the pre-Columbian Maya script.
La (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign for la (𒆷), and also in the "Epic of Gilgamesh" the sumerogram LA-(capital letter (majuscule), is a common-use sign for the Epic and for the 1350 BC Amarna letters. It is used for syllabic "la", and also for alphabetic "l", or "a".