Cuneiform
21Cuneiform — A writing system used for the ancient inscriptions of Babylonia, *Assyria, *Persia and elsewhere, cuneiform is distinguished by its wedge shaped or arrow headed marks. Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt by Rosalie and Antony E. David …
22cuneiform — An early kind of writing developed in Mesopotamia and impressed on tablets of clay. It used stereotyped pictures (‘pictographic’), but from representing things and actions, it later represented sounds and concepts. The symbols were wedge shaped… …
23cuneiform — cu|nei|form [ˈkju:nifo:m, ˈkju:ni ıfo:m US kju:ˈni:əfo:rm] adj [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: Probably from French cunéiforme, from Latin cuneus wedge + French iforme iform ; from the shape of the letters] relating to the writing used by the people of …
24cuneiform — The wedge shaped depressions made by the ancient Mesopotamians in clay in order to inscribe the characters of their written language. It was in southern Mesopotamia, or more precisely in Uruk, around 3100 BCE, that writing appeared for the… …
25cuneiform — [ kju:nɪfɔ:m, kju: neɪɪfɔ:m] adjective 1》 denoting or relating to the wedge shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit. 2》 chiefly Biology wedge shaped. 3》 Anatomy denoting three bones of the tarsus… …
26cuneiform — adjective connected with the writing used by the people of ancient Mesopotamia cuneiform noun (U) …
27cuneiform — I UK [ˈkjuːnɪfɔː(r)m] / US [ˈkjunɪˌfɔrm] adjective linguistics relating to a writing system used in ancient times in the Middle East. The letters are long and thin and wide at one end and narrow at the other. II UK [ˈkjuːnɪfɔː(r)m] / US… …
28cuneiform — adj. & n. adj. 1 wedge shaped. 2 of, relating to, or using the wedge shaped writing impressed usu. in clay in ancient Babylonian etc. inscriptions. n. cuneiform writing. Etymology: F cuneacuteiforme or mod.L cuneiformis f. L cuneus wedge …
29CuneiForm (software) — CuneiForm Original author(s) Cognitive Technologies Developer(s) Cognitive Technologies Stable release 1.1 / April 19, 2011; 6 months ago (2011 04 19) …
30Cuneiform law — refers to any of the legal codes written in cuneiform script, that were developed and used throughout the ancient Middle East among the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Elamites, Hurrians, Kassites, and Hittites.[1] The Code of Hammurabi is the …
