Examples of 'cuneiform' in a sentence

Meaning of "cuneiform"

Cuneiform is an adjective that describes a system of writing that uses a wedge-shaped script. Cuneiform writing was used in ancient Mesopotamia and is one of the earliest known forms of written communication.
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  • Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.
  • Written in the cuneiform writing system.
  • An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets.
  • A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.

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Cuneiform has a specific format for transliteration.
It might be some form of hieratic or maybe cuneiform.
Cuneiform was not in the tradition of the region.
The place is mentioned in the cuneiform inscriptions.
Ancient cuneiform writings that have survived on.
I have never seen a cuneiform like that.
Persian cuneiform has a fraction of the characters.
We see multiple references in the cuneiform tablets.
Most cuneiform tablets record commercial transactions.
Might be some form ofhieratic or maybe cuneiform.
Cuneiform was the first written language.
This is the same with cuneiform in a way.
Cuneiform is the same as on the pedestal.
Even after the invention of cuneiform writing c.
Cuneiform writing began as a system of pictographs.

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Completed search on cuneiform and other predynastic hieroglyphics.
Cuneiform inscription required years of training overseen by priests.
I was able to translate the cuneiform symbols into numbers.
Sumerian cuneiform tablets record prescriptions for medicine.
It might be some kind of hieratic or cuneiform.
A large number of cuneiform tablets were found in the palace.
Cuneiform evolved as a very simple pictograph.
Some clay tablets with cuneiform writing were discovered.
Cuneiform tablets one of the earliest systems of writing.
No cancers on the lateral cuneiform bone.
Their cuneiform language was inadequate for the task.
They were the first to write in cuneiform.
This part of the cuneiform text is now lost or disproven.
Part of the inscription is not in cuneiform.
The cuneiform sign has many uses in cuneiform texts.
All of the tablets are inscribed with cuneiform writing.
That cuneiform is definitely prePhoenician.
This section has parallels to prior cuneiform writings.
Eight archives of cuneiform tablets were excavated in the palace complex.
One of the earliest forms of written expression is cuneiform.
He deciphered many cuneiform inscriptions.
One tablet written in unknown cuneiform.
It contains the cuneiform cartilages.
According to modern interpretations of the cuneiform.
So cuneiform writing was a stylised picture of an impression of a token representing a commodity.
Elamite radically reduced the number of cuneiform glyphs.
Cuneiform launch anniversary compilation.
Layard recovered from the library is a series of cuneiform.
The cuneiform spotting is one of the species difficult to breed.
He is currently working on a digital cuneiform font.
The tablets are written in cuneiform and represent two languages.
Third metatarsal articulates with the third cuneiform.
Cuneiform script was the first known form of writing.
In egyptian hieroglyphics and in cuneiform script.
The cuneiform writing.

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