Adjective : cuneiform inscription. From Dictionary.com.
What we call cuneiform is essentially a cursive hand. From Wordnik.com. [Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs] Reference
Insist on keeping your secret cookie recipes written in cuneiform?. From Wordnik.com. [Five Best Recipe Managers | Lifehacker Australia] Reference
(On the "Cyrus Cylinder," the Persian King inscribed in cuneiform the world's first known "Charter of Human Rights."). From Wordnik.com. [Richard C. Morais: What Steve Forbes's Books Teach Us] Reference
Nor must we forget the additional testimony of three clay cylinders of Nebuchadnezzar, inscribed in cuneiform characters, and now in the National Egyptian Museum. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference
This accident may be known by an elevation immediately above the level of the os-cuneiform, which is easily reduced by pressure to its former situation. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
On many of the walls were found those wedge-shaped characters, or letters, which constitute what are called cuneiform inscriptions, and are found only on Persian and. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey Round the World] Reference
The tablet shows drawings of constellations and pictogram-based text known as cuneiform which was used by the Sumerians, the earliest known civilization in the world. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
Thomas Hyde labeled the inscriptions "cuneiform" in 1700. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
But both languages were written in cuneiform, meaning wedge-shaped, after the shape of the marks made by punching a reed into clay. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
The oldest writing was a pictographic tablet called a "cuneiform" (pronounced kyu-NEE-uh-form) dated to perhaps 3400 B.C. from Sumer. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
'I regret, my dear Percy, that I am not an expert in cuneiform writing. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
The cuneiform inscription is now being translated by an Assyrian scholar. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885] Reference
Scholars later succeeded in interpreting the Babylonian cuneiform script. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
A large number of them have inscriptions in a complex cuneiform character peculiar to Babylon. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Newman goes, in his next letter, to a much more intricate subject: i.e. cuneiform inscriptions. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
He visited also the ruins in the plain of Mel Amir, and copied some of their cuneiform inscriptions. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
This was a simple pictorial, or hieroglyphical system, which they gradually developed into the cuneiform. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
It took many years of patient study to master the cuneiform symbols or the even more difficult hieroglyphics. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
The picture of an altar has been engraved upon it, and down one side runs a cuneiform inscription of ten lines. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
Before the decipherment of the cuneiform texts our knowledge of its history, however, was scanty and questionable. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
I wish my hands could still carve the cuneiform of beauty on the waxy emptiness of thought, but all that's left me. From Wordnik.com. [The Deterioration of My Handwriting] Reference
Of course that is not to jump to the conclusion that they were cuneiform characters that looked like finger-prints. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
What we call history began when humans started to record their experiences on cave walls, in cuneiform and on papyrus. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome To History 2.0] Reference
The cuneiform tablets discovered here were all in store rooms outside the palace; they were placed by the house of the. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
To keep the necessary records, people developed the first written language, cuneiform -- marks incised on clay tablets. From Wordnik.com. [Why Should We Care?] Reference
The translators of the cuneiform inscriptions represent crucifixion as the common punishment for rebellion and treason. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference
In the interior of the larynx there were no projections nor ventricles, no cuneiform cartilages, nor cornicula laryngis. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
In fact, it can be said without fear of contradiction that it is the best historical production of any cuneiform people. From Wordnik.com. [Assyrian Historiography] Reference
Emanuel Deutsch, one of the great authorities on cuneiform inscriptions, gives us the following information as regards them. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
The following cuneiform inscription may still be read upon a pillar near the sepulchre: "I am Cyrus, the king, the Akhæmenian.". From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
They brought with them into the valley the art of hieroglyphical writing, which later developed into the well-known cuneiform system. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
The two large concentric circles indicate the ocean or, as it is called in the cuneiform writing between the circles, the 'Briny Flood.'. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
The cuneiform inscription is not unlike the Hebrew in its character, resembling it about as closely as the Yorkshire dialect resembles good. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885] Reference
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