cuneiformkyuˈni əˌfɔrm, ˈkyu ni ə-
cuneiform (n)
English Definitions:
cuneiform (adj)
an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
wedge-shaped, cuneal, cuneiform (adj)
shaped like a wedge
cuneiform (adj)
of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones)
cuneiform (Noun)
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 clay tablets.
cuneiform (Noun)
A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
cuneiform (Adjective)
Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
cuneiform (Adjective)
Written in the cuneiform writing system.
Cuneiform
There are three cuneiform bones in the human foot: ⁕the first or medial cuneiform ⁕the second or intermediate cuneiform ⁕the third or lateral cuneiform They are located between the navicular bone and the first, second and third metatarsal bones and are medial to the cuboid bone.
Cuneiform
Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Middle East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions (Latin: cuneus) which form its signs. Cuneiform was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system.Over the course of its history, cuneiform was adapted to write a number of languages in addition to Sumerian. Akkadian texts are attested from the 24th century BC onward and make up the bulk of the cuneiform record. Akkadian cuneiform was itself adapted to write the Hittite language in the early second millennium BC. The other languages with significant cuneiform corpora are Eblaite, Elamite, Hurrian, Luwian, and Urartian. The Old Persian and Ugaritic alphabets feature cuneiform-style signs; however, they are unrelated to the cuneiform logo-syllabary proper. The latest known cuneiform tablet dates to 75 AD. The script fell totally out of use soon after and was forgotten until its rediscovery and decipherment in the 19th century. The study of cuneiform belongs to the field of Assyriology. An estimated half a million tablets are held in museums across the world, but comparatively few of these are published. The largest collections belong to the British Museum (approx. 130,000 tablets), the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin, the Louvre, the Istanbul Archaeology Museums, the National Museum of Iraq, the Yale Babylonian Collection (approx. 40,000 tablets), and Penn Museum.
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