Cuneiform is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CUNEIFORM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• ancient system of writing using wedge-shaped characters
ADJECTIVE:
• a wedge-shaped script, also CUNIFORM
• denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly on clay tablets
• denoting three bones of the tarsus (ankle) between the navicular bone and the metatarsals.
• cuneiform writing
• having the shape of a wedge
• (written in) an ancient system of writing using wedge-shaped characters
• Alt. of Cuniform
• an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
• shaped like a wedge
• of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones)
• wedge-shaped

Words related to CUNEIFORM

cuneal8 cuneatic12 cuneiforms17 cuniform15

Words that contain CUNEIFORM

cuneiforms17

How to use CUNEIFORM in a sentence

• The first morning he had six Arabs at work, and found alabaster slabs with cuneiform inscriptions.
• A considerable quantity of marble slabs, with reliefs and cuneiform inscriptions, were carefully detached from the walls and sent to England.
• The English resident at Baghdad, Major Rawlinson, had made himself perfectly master of the cuneiform character.
• Upon a revolving roller they engraved, in cuneiform letters, their records, and, running this over plastic clay formed into blocks, produced ineffaceable proofs.
• They were such records as one might expect to meet with in the cuneiform impressions of the tile libraries of the Mesopotamian kings.
• The cuneiform monuments, while they generally confirm Herodotus, contradict Ctesias perpetually.
• In Armenia, the present language which is predominantly Arian, ousted the former Turaman tongue which appears in the cuneiform inscriptions of Van and the adjacent regions.
• The cuneiform writing arose when clay took the place of stone as a material.
• While resident at Baghdad, he devoted his leisure time to cuneiform studies.
• We must not conclude, however, that because a European legend may bear resemblances to one translated from a cuneiform tablet it is necessarily of Babylonian origin.
• The strict dependence of writing, indeed, upon the material employed is nowhere better shown than in the case of the Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions.
• They are of upright habit, and of a simple and definite outline, which throws into sharp relief the cumbrous and obscure cuneiform system of Babylonia.
• The cuneiform script was an inheritance from the non-Semitic predecessors of the Semites in Babylonia, and in this script the characters represented words as well as sounds.
• Here he has found numberless historical inscriptions, besides a text in hieroglyphics which may cast light on the origin of the cuneiform characters.
• It is even possible that in the Madyes of Herodotos, we have a reminiscence of the Manda of the cuneiform inscriptions.
• He used to copy the inscriptions in the cuneiform writing and then translate them into English.
• And yet the cuneiform inscriptions have smoothed away all these objections.
• It was this foreign correspondence which was embodied in the cuneiform tablets.
• The cuneiform tablets found at Tel el-Amarna in Upper Egypt give us a vivid picture of its condition at the close of the Eighteenth dynasty.
• The early inhabitants of Armenia, who have left us inscriptions in the cuneiform character, also belonged to it.
• So far as archaeology can teach us, the builders of the Babylonian cities, the inventors of the cuneiform characters, had behind them no barbarous past.
• In the winter of 1887-88 there were discovered there about three hundred clay tablets, covered with cuneiform inscriptions which have since been deciphered.

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