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Definitions of cuneiform in various dictionaries:
noun - an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
adj - shaped like a wedge
adj - of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones)
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| The Hittites borrowed this wedgy alphabetic system from the Babylonians; hope they gave it back |
| Most knowledge of the Hittites comes from clay tablets with writing in this wedge-shaped system |
| G.F. Grotefend and Sir Henry Rawlinson helped decipher forms of this wedge-shaped Sumerian writing |
| Sumerians scratched this writing system into stone & wax in addition to clay tablets |
| The oldest artifact in D.C.'s Newseum is a 3,200-year-old Sumerian brick that spread the news using this writing system |
| The Hittite language was written in this wedge-shaped system |
| To read the Code of Hammurabi in its original script, you have to know how to read this |
| The earliest scribes in Egypt wrote in hieroglyphics & those in Babylon wrote in this style |
| The foot contains wedge-shaped bones that share a name with this ancient Middle Eastern writing system |
| This system of wedge-shaped writing originated in Sumer around 3000 B.C. |
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| denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly on clay tablets. |
| an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia |
| of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones) |
| shaped like a wedge |
| of a form of writing used for over 3,000 years until the 1st century BC in the ancient countries of Western Asia |
| pointed at one end and wide at the other: |
| an ancient Mesopotamian and Persian form of writing in which thin wooden sticks with triangular ends are pressed into wet clay. |
| Wedge-shaped. |
| Denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly on clay tablets. |
| Denoting three bones of the tarsus (ankle) between the navicular bone and the metatarsals. |
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Cuneiform or Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform, one of the earliest systems of writing, was invented by the Sumerians. It is distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. The name cuneiform itself simply means "wedge shaped".Emerging in Sumer in the late fourth millennium BC (the Uruk IV period) to convey the Sumerian language, which was a language isolate, cuneiform writing began as a system of pictograms, stemming from an earlier system of shaped tokens used for accounting. In the third millennium, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract as the number of characters in use grew smaller (Hittite cuneiform). The system consists of a combination of logophonetic, consonantal alphabetic and syllabic signs. * The original Sumerian script was adapted for the writing of the Semitic Akkadian (Assyrian/Babylonian), Eblaite and Amorite languages, the language isolates Elamite, Hattic, Hurrian and Urartian, as well as Indo-European languages Hittite and Luwian; it inspired the later Semitic Ugaritic alphabet as well as Old Persian cuneiform. Cuneiform writing was gradually replaced by the Phoenician alphabet during the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–612 BC). By the second century AD, the script had become extinct, its last traces being found in Assyria and Babylonia, and all knowledge of how to read it was lost until it began to be deciphered in the 19th century. * Between half a million and two million cuneiform tablets are estimated to have been excavated in modern times, of which only approximately 30,000–100,000 have been read or published. The British Museum holds the largest collection (c. 130,000), followed by the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin, the Louvre, the Istanbul Archaeology Museums, the National Museum of Iraq, the Yale Babylonian Collection (c. 40,000) and Penn Museum. Most of these have "lain in these collections for a century without being translated, studied or published," as there are only a few hundred qualified cuneiformists in the world.* |