How To Use Cuneiform In A Sentence
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The clay cuneiform tablets, only inches tall, record business from about 2000 B.C.
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The most telling signs were an incorrect horse harness and an error in the cuneiform inscription.
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Thousands of cuneiform tablets and ancient Christian, Muslim and Jewish manuscripts are gone.
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The most telling signs were an incorrect horse harness and an error in the cuneiform inscription.
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Their copies of the old text were reprinted in every land and by the middle of the nineteenth century, the cuneiform language (so called because the letters were wedge-shaped and "cuneus" is the Latin name for wedge) had given up its secrets.
Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations
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These bricks often had cuneiform inscriptions, as did the cylinder seals that were also discovered.
EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
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It is significant that many of the clay tablets bearing the cuneiform script refer to measurements of quantity, weight and length.
MEASURING AMERICA
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Among them is a single display of Babylonian cuneiform tablets that accounts for nine missing items.
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Amongst the curiosities are the cuneiform types, the wedge-like series of faces in which old Persian, Median, and
A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898
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It is significant that many of the clay tablets bearing the cuneiform script refer to measurements of quantity, weight and length.
MEASURING AMERICA
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First, there was a broken cuneiform bone in his left foot.
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The Babylonians wrote on tablets of unbaked clay, using cuneiform writing.
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On the medial side of the foot from behind forward may be felt the _medial process (internal tuberosity) _ of the calcaneus; the _sustentaculum tali_, which lies about 1 inch vertically below the tip of the malleolus; the _tubercle of the navicular_, about 1 inch in front of the malleolus, and at a slightly lower level; the _first (internal) cuneiform_, and the base, shaft, and head of the _first metatarsal_.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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This was well before the discoveries which were used to argue a universal Stone Age for humanity, and before the decipherment of ancient scripts such as hieroglyphics and cuneiform.
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In the interior of the larynx there were no projections nor ventricles, no cuneiform cartilages, nor cornicula laryngis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The foot can be divided into three anatomic regions: the hindfoot or rearfoot (talus and calcaneus); the midfoot (navicular bone, cuboid bone, and three cuneiform bones); and the forefoot (metatarsals and phalanges).
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From beneath mounds of sand and debris, Babylon and Nineveh were exposed to view together with whole libraries of clay cuneiform tablets.
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It has remained the same since cuneiform was pressed into wet clay with a reed.
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A 4,000 year old love poem: "Bridegroom, dear to my heart, Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet,'" the first line in the cuneiform tablet reads.
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The increasing simplification traceable from the Egyptian epigraphic hieroglyphs to the Greek and Roman alphabets and the anticipation of modern stenography and telegraphic code in the cuneiform inscriptions (Semitic) and the virgular quinquecostate ogham writing (Celtic).
Ulysses
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An extinct script, such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Babylonian cuneiform or the glyphs of the ancient Maya of Central America, may strike us as little short of miraculous and bizarrely different from our own alphabetic scripts.
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In 1843 he was appointed British consul in Baghdad and this allowed extra time for his studies, especially work on cuneiform tablets found at Assyrian cities such as Nimrud and Nineveh.
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So far only one monumental statue of a Persian king has turned up, a statue of Darius discovered at Susa in 1972, decorated with hieroglyphics and cuneiform.
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In cuneiform writing, words are represented by signs incised into clay tablets by a wedge-shaped instrument.
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People in different civilisations have invented different writing systems: for example, scripts in Egypt, the cuneiform images in Mesopotamia, and Chinese characters in China.
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Yet, one still would have to show that this Egyptian creation was transferred to Mesopotamia, and that the Sumerian proto-cuneiform and cuneiform writing derived from Egypt.
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In Nippur, for example, which was one of the most important sites in ancient Mesopotamia, many cuneiform tablets - including a copy of the Gilgamesh epic - are missing.
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‘No ice,’ concluded a lengthy report written by a bloke in, for no discernible reason, Ancient Hittite cuneiform.
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The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative is an ongoing international effort between Assyriology experts and museum curators from all over the world.
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Some -- like the nine bricks with cuneiform inscriptions of ancient Sumerian princes, or the early Kufic gravestones from the era following the death of the Prophet Mohammed -- would be of interest mainly to specialists.
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The tarsals of giraffes consist of only four bones: calcaneum, astragulus, fused navicular and cuboid, fused cuneiforms.
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It has remained the same since cuneiform was pressed into wet clay with a reed.
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On the cart lay the following: proximal and distal portions of a left femur; a fragment of proximal left fibula; two fragments of left tibia, one proximal, the other distal, including the mangled malleolus; a portion of left pelvis extending from the pubic bone out into the blade; the talus, navicular, and third and second cuneiforms from a left foot.
Spider Bones
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There is evidence that the Babylonians were using sine tables, recorded in cuneiform symbols on clay tablets, long before Hipparchus.
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The second style of cuneiform, generally known as Median or Susian, [13] is again only a slight modification of the "Persian.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
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The Sumerians are credited with inventing the cuneiform system of writing, which was originally pictographic but gradually became stylized.
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The exhibition provides a history of writing: pictogram, hieroglyph, cuneiform, alphabet, all of these are represented.
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Archaeologists call this first writing "cuneiform," from the Latin "cuneus," meaning wedge.
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_mima_ "water," in Hebrew _shâmayim_ and _mayim_, which we gather from the cuneiform spelling have been wrongly punctuated by the Masoretes, as well as _khaya_ "living," the Hebrew _khai_, and _makhsû_, "they have smitten him," the Hebrew _makhatsu_.
Patriarchal Palestine
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Round-stylus and sharp-stylus writing was gradually replaced by writing using a wedge-shaped stylus (hence the term cuneiform), at first only for logograms, but evolved to include phonetic elements by the
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An extinct script, such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Babylonian cuneiform or the glyphs of the ancient Maya of Central America, may strike us as little short of miraculous and bizarrely different from our own alphabetic scripts.
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Heech Tablet, melding architectural form and geometric abstraction, extends this conceit using a bronze slab whose surface is incised with rows of small rectangles meant to evoke a cuneiform inscription.
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This library is designed for serious cuneiform researchers as well as researchers from other disciplines, although tools are being created to open access to non-Assyriology specialists.
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It was in fact a spiral trochoid joint with a cuneiform convexity in all the simian primates except for the humans.
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Eleanor Robson, a cuneiformist at Oxford's Oriental Institute, says that although "we have no idea how the lyrics should be pronounced," Parpola's translations are a thoroughly respectable scholarly effort.
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When the cuneiform syllabary was superseded in Palestine by the so-called Phoenician alphabet we do not know.
Patriarchal Palestine
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The paired, club-shaped, elastic cuneiform cartilages are anterior to the corniculate cartilages.
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By the 2nd millennium BC, Mesopotamian script changed from pictographic to cuneiform writing (wedge shaped signs representing sounds instead of objects), and by around 2000BC the first true alphabetic system (where a phoneme is represented by a letter) appeared.
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He is illiterate, but a collection of ancient cuneiform inscriptions near his home assume great significance for him, and from them he constructs his own symbols and written language.
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Their basic economic organization and system of writing cuneiform, architectural forms, and legal practices remained in use.
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs
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The peroneus longus muscle also inserts onto the inferior surface of the first cuneiform bone.
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Based on the above, he was able to conclude that the immediate precursor of cuneiform writing was a system of tokens.
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In 1844, he scaled the almost sheer cliffs of Bisitun, in Persia, copying relief sculptures and their accompanying cuneiform inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian.
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In cuneiform writing, words are represented by signs incised into clay tablets by a wedge-shaped instrument.
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It rescues cuneiform from its dusty place in the museum basement.
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Insist on keeping your secret cookie recipes written in cuneiform?
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Nor must we forget the additional testimony of three clay cylinders of Nebuchadnezzar, inscribed in cuneiform characters, and now in the National Egyptian Museum.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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What we call ktav ivri is a cuneiform script, is an abjad offshoot of the ancient Semitic alphabet, barely discernible from the Phoenician alphabet from which it was derived.
DovBear
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The tarsals of giraffes consist of only four bones: calcaneum, astragulus, fused navicular and cuboid, fused cuneiforms.
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What we call cuneiform is essentially a cursive hand.
Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs
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Assyria, "and there" builded "Nineveh and Calah, The cuneiform inscriptions have informed us who this builder of Calah was.
Patriarchal Palestine
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Elastic cartilage is found in the external ear, auditory tube, epiglottis, and corniculate and cuneiform cartilages of the larynx.
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From beneath mounds of sand and debris, Babylon and Nineveh were exposed to view together with whole libraries of clay cuneiform tablets.
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This first writing system, cuneiform -- from the Latin word cuneus, for wedge -- was invented by the region's first powerful culture, the non-Semitic Sumerians, during the fourth millennium BC.
Chicago Reader
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There are only a small number of scholars worldwide who can read cuneiform script.
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Digital representations of the tablets bearing the cuneiform writing of ancient Mesopotamia have started appearing on the Internet.
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The most telling signs were an incorrect horse harness and an error in the cuneiform inscription.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cuneiform was in many ways unsuited to Akkadian: among its flaws was its inability to represent important phonemes in Semitic, including a glottal stop, pharyngeals, and emphatic consonants.
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The exhibition provides a history of writing: pictogram, hieroglyph, cuneiform, alphabet, all of these are represented.
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The shape of these signs is that of a wedge, hence the name cuneiform (from the Latin cuneus, "a wedge").
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Gilgamesh is a collection of poems engraved in cuneiform script on clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia (today's Middle East).
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The increasing simplification traceable from the Egyptian epigraphic hieroglyphs to the Greek and Roman alphabets and the anticipation of modern stenography and telegraphic code in the cuneiform inscriptions (Semitic) and the virgular quinquecostate ogham writing (Celtic).
Ulysses
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The guess may be hazarded that cephalhematoma, hydrocephalus, meningocele, nevi, or an excessive amount of vernix caseosa were the conditions indicated, but a wider acquaintance with the meaning of the cuneiform characters is necessary before any certain identification is possible.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Cuneonavicular Articulation (articulatio cuneonavicularis; articulation of the navicular with the cuneiform bones).
III. Syndesmology. 7e. Intertarsal Articulations
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The first cuneiform writing is lists of food.
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Features described by the ancients - mountain passes, hill flanks, and the great plain - stood suddenly revealed before us, all in their proper places, as the Mesopotamian geography yielded its secrets like a dusty cuneiform.
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Persian culture by the cultural impact of Mesopotamia, the use of cuneiform.
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It has remained the same since cuneiform was pressed into wet clay with a reed.
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Saddam replaced some of the ancient Sumerian bricks containing the first language of cuneiform with his own inscriptions of self-aggrandizement.
Rajai Hakki: An Arab-American Iraq War Veteran Returns to the Middle East,
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The second style of cuneiform generally known as "Median", or "Susian", is, again, a slight modification of the "Persian".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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It has remained the same since cuneiform was pressed into wet clay with a reed.
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They were Sumerian and Akkadian words inscribed in parallel columns on clay tablets in cuneiform writing and were organized thematically.
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The beginnings have been found in palace archives - hoards of clay tablets inscribed in cuneiform - in Mesopotamia.
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Lambert's ability as a cuneiformist was, quite simply, unrivalled.
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While we were waiting for these to air dry, I used the time to have the students research the uses of clay slabs in cuneiform writing and pictographic writing.
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The same method, it is understood, has been applied to the deciphering of the cuneiform records recently disentombed from the ruins of Nineveh.
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Their system was an integrated technology of stylus, clay, and cuneiform that was at first pictographic and became in due course ideographic and syllabographic.
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To prevent people from stealing their precious glass secrets, the instructions were written in cuneiform upon clay tablets.
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The tarsals of giraffes consist of only four bones: calcaneum, astragulus, fused navicular and cuboid, fused cuneiforms.
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I savor the gentle, quiet terror of reading cuneiform tablets that threaten to crumble at my very presence.
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Wounds on the foot consisted of exposed long extensor tendons and medial cuneiform and navicular bones and first metatarsal bone was exposed along its length up to the first metatarsal phalangeal joint.
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It has remained the same since cuneiform was pressed into wet clay with a reed.
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The more systematic arrangement of the cuneiform symbols was largely the creation of Western scholars.
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The symbols were pressed into soft clay tablets with the slanted edge of a stylus and so had a wedge-shaped appearance (and hence the name cuneiform).
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Without wasting time, they began the work of recording the cuneiform inscriptions and sculptures.
EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
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Pictography is a form of writing whereby ideas are transmitted through drawing. It is the basis of cuneiform and hieroglyphs.
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With the cultural dissemination, other ethnic groups in west Asia and southwest Asia adopted cuneiform.
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Our oldest recorded plant disease, ergot was first described on an Assyrian cuneiform tablet as a ‘noxious pustule in the ear of grain.’
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As the medial side of the cuboid and the lateral side of the ectocuneiform are eroded, the fit between the two specimens cannot be fully assessed.
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The later Babylonians adopted the same style of cuneiform writing on clay tablets.
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There can be few more daunting artefacts to include successfully in a show than a cuneiform tablet.
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The world in which Gilgamesh lives before Enkidu is the world of the me, the world shaped by craftsman Enki, god of clay, inventor of the wedge-shaped imprints of cuneiform, and the mathematics and writing that those marks graved into the world, inventor of irrigation, delineating territory into fields with the inscriptions of trenches.
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Standing upon their lofty pinnacles, they are as legible to the rabble below as a line of cuneiform writing in a page of old copybook roundhand.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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(On the "Cyrus Cylinder," the Persian King inscribed in cuneiform the world's first known "Charter of Human Rights.")
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It is inserted into the tuberosity of the navicular bone, and gives off fibrous expansions, one of which passes backward to the sustentaculum tali of the calcaneus, others forward and lateralward to the three cuneiforms, the cuboid, and the bases of the second, third, and fourth metatarsal bones.
IV. Myology. 8c. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Leg
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Although the idea may have come from Mesopotamia, the script was independent of the cuneiform.
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But the partially complete Ardi skeleton has generated the most discussion, especially over a bone from the base of her big toe called the medial cuneiform.
Catch a Pithecus by the Toe
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Many cuneiform inscriptions from this period have been found in vast library archives of clay tablets.
EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
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Graphic granite is a regular intergrowth of quartz and feldspar that gives an angular appearance suggestive of cuneiform writing (whence "graphic," which means "writing").
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Among them is a single display of Babylonian cuneiform tablets that accounts for nine missing items.
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Like Hoa, he is symbolized by the simple wedge or "arrowhead," the primary and essential element of cuneiform writing, to mark his joint presidency with that God over writing and literature.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
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Over 4000 years ago the Sumerian merchants of Babylon and Nineveh recorded bills, receipts and promissory notes in cuneiform script on clay tablets.
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Since the primary purpose of the script was not to record human speech but to serve as a device for recording economic data, the significative potential of the oldest cuneiform system was rather limited.
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The later Babylonians adopted the same style of cuneiform writing on clay tablets.
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The navicular trochlea at the bottom of the astragalus extends that range by some further amount, and the cuneiform - metatarsal II articulation may extend the range a bit further yet.
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The hieracium vcnqfum, foliis cuneiformibus hirtis, fcapo nudo crafTilTimo erefto, grows from the north to Virginia inclufively; is called poor Robin's plantain, and faid to fruftrate the bite both of the rattle-fnakc and of his fuppofed prccurfor the pilot-fnake.
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies
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In addition to the cuneiform inscriptions of Old Persian, there was also a closely related liturgical language known as Avestan.
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The Babylonians wrote on tablets of unbaked clay, using cuneiform writing.
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The name persisted in human memory in our part of the world albeit with a slight modification while in the west it was confined only to cuneiform tablets.
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Billed as the first album ever produced in Sumerian, Ammondt's newest effort is Three Songs In Sumerian, a collaboration with respected cuneiformist Simo Parpola of Helsinki University.
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