| 单词 | cuneiform |
| 例句 | Combined with wedge-shaped cuneiform writing, scene after scene of these wall carvings scrupulously detail military exploits. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z Their predecessors in this included the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hittites, who all kept significant archives of clay cuneiform tablets in their palaces and temple precincts. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I was a mess of multicolored bruises and bore so many cuts it looked like I'd been tattooed in cuneiform. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Before the spread of alphabetic writing, systems making much use of logograms were more common and included Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and Sumerian cuneiform. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The broken walls were covered with friezes of men and women in strange outfits with bands of cuneiform running both above and below. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I saw a few tall stone slabs—steles—engraved with cuneiform and other unintelligible markings. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Later Sumerian cuneiform did become capable of rendering prose, but it did so by the messy system that I’ve already described, with mixtures of logograms, phonetic signs, and unpronounced determinatives totaling hundreds of separate signs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Besides Sumerian cuneiform, the other certain instance of independent origins of writing in human history comes from Native American societies of Mesoamerica, probably southern Mexico. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But cuneiform was found in museums, displayed in glass cases and preserved as something precious, not scratched into a steel slaughterhouse. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The columns on the tablet are made up of cuneiform script detailing various instruments, including the kinnor, the hand-held harp-like instrument that is alternatively known as a lyre. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z We hear of a three-volume Babylonian history, derived directly from the cuneiform records at Babylon, by a Chaldean priest named Berossus. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z A cuneiform script — taken from a tablet inscribed in Old Persian that is a foundation charter for the palace of Darius — appears on the sapphire crystal inserted between the engraved lion and the marquetry. Intricate Timepieces, Inspired by the Louvre 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z The oldest is a cuneiform tablet from about 2300 B.C.; the newest was published last year. Behold, the Tiniest of Books 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Records of milk production occur in the cuneiform tablets of the Uruk period of 3,000 years ago, and in Sumerian and Babylonian sources. Milk: A Local and Global History by Deborah Valenze ? review 2011-07-29T23:08:16Z Then, very late, there is added to the universe of being a shaped stick or stone, a jug, a cuneiform tablet. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z The first writing system, cuneiform, arose in Sumer around 3200 BC to keep track of wheat, transactions, real estate and recipes. The 5,000-year history of writer’s block 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z At Tayma, an oasis ringed by fortifications from the third millennium BC, they selected several remarkable stelae with cuneiform characters. Saudi Arabia's pre-Islamic treasures come to the Louvre 2010-08-10T13:00:00Z The Cyrus cylinder, made of clay and inscribed with cuneiform, was found on a dig in Babylon in 1979 before being acquired by the British Museum. Babylonian relic to visit US with historic message of tolerance 2012-11-27T19:03:48Z Feathers and cuneiform letters are chiselled into other fragments. In the ruins of an Iraqi city, memories of Agatha Christie 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z The show demonstrates that, contrary to the long-held belief that writing spread from east to west, Sumerian cuneiform and its derivatives and Egyptian hieroglyphics evolved separately from each another. Hunting for the Dawn of Writing, When Prehistory Became History 2010-10-19T21:55:00Z Despite that warning and other red flags, prosecutors say, Hobby Lobby in December 2010 spent $1.6 million to purchase more than 5,500 artifacts comprised of cuneiform tablets and bricks, clay bullae and cylinder seals. Hobby Lobby to forfeit ancient Iraqi artifacts in settlement with U.S. DOJ 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Robert K. Englund, the principal investigator for the cuneiform initiative, said that thousands of images and texts from institutions including the British Museum and the Louvre have been added in the last few years. Digital Troves, Providing Insights and Reuniting Antiquities 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z At the core of the library’s collections is the written word, represented by items from those cuneiform tablets to modern manuscripts by Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Tom Wolfe and others. A Cabinet of Wonders Opens Wide 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Our knowledge of Babylonian comes from written sources, usually clay tablets in cuneiform script. "Eternals" – Marvel consulted me to help superheroes chit chat in Babylonian 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Those artifacts are among a half-million or so cuneiform tablets in museum collections around the world and are of interest to scholars and researchers. Rare ‘Gilgamesh’ tablet, once on view at the Museum of the Bible, is one step closer to being returned to Iraq 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z A cuneiform tablet rests on her lap, as if she’s ready to write. In Search of Enheduanna, History’s First Named Author 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z For example, there is an inscribed piece of marble with cuneiform that includes turns of phrase used elsewhere exclusively to describe a specific king, Esarhaddon, who was a ruler of Assyria circa 672 B.C. Did ISIS inadvertently uncover the secret to the “lost” Hanging Gardens of Babylon? 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Ms. Fenley’s honed, angled movement palette tends to lend itself to martial metaphors, in any case, and her cuneiform shapes to remind of classical forms. Dance Review: Molissa Fenley and Dancers at Judson Memorial Church - Review 2012-01-10T23:37:41Z It is a deeply unimpressive looking object – about the size and shape of a rugby ball, made from hardened clay and incised all over with the stick-like characters of Babylonian cuneiform. Babylonian relic to visit US with historic message of tolerance 2012-11-27T19:03:48Z A dark maze in digital numbers by a Hobart artist contains Mesopotanian cuneiform tablets, examples of the oldest writing to survive. The cultural cringe subverted 2011-04-13T19:30:01Z Although Egyptian hieroglyphics are more broadly familiar than cuneiform, Sumerian writing was done on clay, which is more durable than papyrus. Hunting for the Dawn of Writing, When Prehistory Became History 2010-10-19T21:55:00Z They included 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets, slivers of papyrus, cylinder seals and clay bullae — all relics from ancient Mesopotamia that showcased some of the earliest forms of written communication. Bible Museum, Admitting Mistakes, Tries to Convert Its Critics 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z “I consider myself pretty digitally native, but I can still recall floppy disks. That’s cuneiform tablets to Victor. He grew up completely immersed in this.” Teens Cash In on the NFT Art Boom 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z Feathers and cuneiform letters are chiselled into other fragments. In the ruins of an Iraqi city, memories of Agatha Christie 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z History does not record that the invention of writing was accompanied by a rash of intemperate cuneiform proclamations later regretted, but it would not surprise Miss Manners to learn that it was so. Perspective | Miss Manners: ‘Kids these days,’ Part 792 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z The narrative gallops on to Mesopotamia, Nineveh, clay tablets, cuneiform and Gilgamesh. We Are What We Read 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Carved into it in cuneiform script is the Code of Hammurabi, the Babylonian system of law in ancient Mesopotamia. Persian Collections at Louvre Are Worth the Journey 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z The troop-placement trenches, by contrast, dug to protect several hundred men in nuclear-warfare drills, look, from the sky, like the marks of a reed stylus on an ancient cuneiform tablet. Emmet Gowin’s Intimate Photography of Nuclear Destruction 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Some 15,000 pieces, including ancient statues, sculptures and cuneiform tablets, were pillaged. The National Museum of Iraq Reopens 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z He was caught when, on what was supposed to be a 7th century BC Assyrian relief sculpture, he accidentally misspelled a word in cuneiform. How to spot a fake: Art forgery’s secrets revealed 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Here, you can tuck a miniature prayer into the Western Wall, or see a fragment of clay engraved with cuneiform at the excavation site at Temple Mount. These Are the 10 Best Cities to Visit Around the World 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The next year, he began repetitively stabbing clay tablets, like a crazed Sumerian scribe turning tidy cuneiform into cuss-filled graffiti. Review | Lucio Fontana slashed his canvases with a knife. Was it a gimmick or something more? 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Another set of cuneiform tablets detailed how to interpret the motion of celestial bodies. What is Mercury retrograde? 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Many of the earliest documented examples of writing come from languages that used cuneiform script, which featured wedge-shaped characters impressed into clay tablets. What’s the World’s Oldest Language? 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z From cuneiform clay tablets to computer keyboards, the writing process has changed very little for thousands of years. Will AI replace writers — and the rest of us? An L.A. scholar-poet games out the future 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z The artefact is inscribed with complete cuneiform text - a system of writing on clay in an ancient Babylonian alphabet. Iraq: displays 2800-year-old stone tablet returned by Italy 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z The state used several languages to communicate with its subjects, and the government sponsored a major effort to standardize a new, simplified cuneiform alphabet. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z They adopted many practices of the Persian Empire, including honoring local gods, as revealed by cuneiform records of the offerings they made. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Some scholars, though, have tried to remove any ambiguities from words related to the kiss by consulting cuneiform text on clay tablets dating back more than 4,500 years. The First Kiss in Recorded History Dates Back Nearly 5,000 Years 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z An ancient Mesopotamian limestone boundary marker, covered in cuneiform inscriptions, has “an aura,” a presence and physicality “so solid, so dense, that it felt as if it had its own gravity well.” Review | Borders can be spaces of wonder — if you have the right passport 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z These results jibe with inscriptions on cuneiform tablets from that time in which Hittite officials fretted over rising food prices and asked for grain to be sent to their cities. Drought may have doomed this ancient empire — a warning for today’s climate crisis 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z An example of cuneiform script, carved into a stone tablet, dating from c. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Over time, the Akkadians adopted Sumerian culture and adapted cuneiform to their own language, a language of the Semitic family that includes the Arabic and Hebrew spoken today. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The earliest confirmed systems of human writing emerged around 3,200 B.C., with cuneiform in Mesopotamia and hieroglyphics in Egypt. An Ancient People’s Oldest Message: Get Rid of Beard Lice. 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Archaeologists used the dry spell to further explore the ruins, finding well-preserved clay walls, cuneiform tablets and a multistory storage building. News Briefs from around the World: October 2022 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Anterior to the talus is the navicular bone, and anterior to this are the medial, intermediate, and lateral cuneiform bones. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z On each side of the capstone, engraved in four ancient languages - Babylonian cuneiform, Classical Greek, Sanskrit and Egyptian hieroglyphic - were the words: "Let these be guidestones to an Age of Reason." Georgia Guidestones: 'America's Stonehenge' demolished after blast 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z At some point, its people had adapted Sumerian cuneiform to their own language, which, like Akkadian, belonged to the Semitic family of languages, and archaeologists have discovered thousands of cuneiform tablets at the site. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “Ithaca’s architecture makes it really applicable to any ancient language, not just Latin, but Mayan, cuneiform; really any written medium — papyri, manuscripts,” she said. DeepMind’s new AI model helps decipher, date, and locate ancient inscriptions 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z As with Sumerian cuneiform writing, in the earliest form of hieroglyphic writing, a picture stood for an idea. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The base of these bones articulate with the cuboid or cuneiform bones. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z The artifacts — a fragment of a stone tablet inscribed with cuneiform characters and a hexagonal prism used to teach schoolchildren the cuneiform alphabet — are believed to be about 4,000 years old, authorities said. Federal agents return 4,000-year-old artifacts to Iraqi government 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z They developed their own writing system around 3000 BCE, even though they adapted Sumerian cuneiform to their language later in the third millennium BCE. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Archaeologists had suspected that these animals — depicted in art, their sales recorded in cuneiform writing, their bodies sometimes laid to rest in rich burial sites — were the result of some kind of crossbreeding. The Kunga Was a Status Symbol Long Before the Thoroughbred 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z He carefully forms cuneiform signs on a clay tablet. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z These bones are the medial cuneiform, the intermediate cuneiform, and the lateral cuneiform. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z The hexagonal prism was being held by a private gallery in Los Angeles, whose operators approached agents with “several items of interest,” Fredrickson said, “but the most interesting item they had was this cuneiform prism.” Federal agents return 4,000-year-old artifacts to Iraqi government 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, scribes continued to preserve and write works in Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The earliest known form of writing, cuneiform symbols inscribed in clay, emerged in southern Iraq more than 5,000 years ago. Reveling in the Joys of Books, and Reading, at a Baghdad Book Fair 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z In contrast to cuneiform and hieroglyphics, the Harappan language has been impossible to decipher. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The navicular and lateral cuneiform bones also articulate with the medial side of the cuboid bone. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z For example, visitors to the virtual museum can learn how Lincoln checked his math using a technique known as “casting out nines” or discover more about the cuneiform symbols the Sumerians used to calculate area. Online exhibit adds up the history of mathematics 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Scribes kept records in cuneiform of all the goods collected and distributed by these institutions. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The tablet is written in the Akkadian language in cuneiform script - an system of writing on clay used in ancient Mesopotamia thousands of years ago. The epic adventures of the Gilgamesh Dream tablet 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Iraq is the site of ancient Mesopotamia, a region home to many ancient civilizations including that of the Sumer which developed the cuneiform, one of the world’s oldest writing systems. Trove of missing ancient Mesopotamian artefacts found in Norway 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z These articulate with the cuboid or cuneiform bones. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z They included cuneiform tablets, ancient cylinder seals and clay seal impressions known as bullae. Iraq Reclaims 17,000 Looted Artifacts, Its Biggest-Ever Repatriation 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z For example, cuneiform tablets from circa 1900 BCE show that merchants from Ashur in northern Mesopotamia conducted trade with central Anatolia and wrote letters to their female family members back home. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Once in the US, a cuneiform expert recognised it as bearing a part of the Gilgamesh epic. The epic adventures of the Gilgamesh Dream tablet 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Nadhim said other artifacts being returned included other tablets inscribed in cuneiform script. Iraq says U.S. to return 17,000 ancient artifacts looted after invasion 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z The posterior foot contains the seven tarsal bones, which are the talus, calcaneus, navicular, cuboid, and the medial, intermediate, and lateral cuneiform bones. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z The cuneiform tablet, written in the ancient language of Akkadian and dating from around 1500 B.C., was illegally transported to the U.S. in 2003 and again in 2014, prosecutors said in a federal complaint. Forfeiture of ancient tablet bought by Hobby Lobby approved 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z These later empires preserved many elements of the earlier Sumerian civilization, including cuneiform and works of literature like the Epic of Gilgamesh. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Most cuneiform texts deciphered since the 19th century are significant because they are mundane, chronicling trade deals, land swaps and other administrative orders revealing daily life. Review: Getty Villa reopens with ancient treasures from the Louvre 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Telling an aspiring writer to privilege crisp dialogue and an interior sense of character is like insisting toddlers study cuneiform before learning their ABCs. Ken Burns' new Hemingway documentary doesn't give you a reason to read Hemingway 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z What prevails, perhaps, over loss is an enchantment or haunting, like the rhyming flow of mumble-rap, or like a secret code inscribed in Afrofuturist cuneiform. Perspective | Ellen Gallagher takes printmaking to a spellbinding new level The British Museum is loaning its circa-2,500-year-old Cyrus Cylinder, a vessel on which an ancient proclamation of human rights was written in Babylonian cuneiform. Art in 2021: The highlights to hope for 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z Here, in the late fourth millennium bc, writing probably originated in the form of cuneiform script on clay tablets, used to record bureaucratic information such as economic transactions. How did ancient cities weather crises? 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z After the Persian Gulf war of 1991, hundreds of thousands of objects, including many cuneiform tablets, are believed to have been looted from archaeological sites across Iraq. Authorities Seek Forfeiture of Ancient Gilgamesh Tablet From Hobby Lobby 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z The tablet contains a portion of the Gilgamesh epic, a Sumerian epic poem written in cuneiform. Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet for Museum of the Bible 'stolen,' feds say 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z What prevails, perhaps, over loss is an enchantment or haunting, like the rhyming flow of mumble-rap, or like a secret code inscribed in Afrofuturist cuneiform. Perspective | Ellen Gallagher takes printmaking to a spellbinding new level In 2017, for example, a consignment of ancient Iraqi cuneiform tablets they had purchased was found to have been smuggled into the US as “tile samples”. A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The tablet is written in what's known as cuneiform, a system of letters used in the ancient world. Demon with forked tongue discovered on clay tablet in library of Assyrian exorcists 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z In court documents, the authorities traced the tablet’s ownership back to 2003, when an unnamed American antiquities dealer bought an encrusted cuneiform tablet from the family of a Jordanian antiquities dealer in London. Authorities Seek Forfeiture of Ancient Gilgamesh Tablet From Hobby Lobby 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z In my classroom, students read a version of the poem and, using Popsicle sticks as styluses, pressed wedge-shaped cuneiform into clay tablets. The Mail 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Scholars cannot afford to ignore these outliers, because the symbols that constitute cuneiform, up to a thousand of them, changed over the millennium that produced Sin-leqi-unninni’s materials. How to Read “Gilgamesh” 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z A recent exhibition on the written word at the British Library dates the emergence of cuneiform writing to the fourth millennium B.C.E., in Mesopotamia. Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z As you know, the ancient Sumerians used a system of writing called cuneiform, which began as a series of pictograms. Peachy: the emoji that’s become a political statement 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z After the tablet was imported and cleaned, experts in cuneiform, a system of writing used in ancient Mesopotamia, “recognized it as a portion of the Gilgamesh epic,” the statement said. Authorities Seek Forfeiture of Ancient Gilgamesh Tablet From Hobby Lobby 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z It is difficult, though, to imagine some scribe back in Sumer creating the cuneiform for “condimentization.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Two ways in which Fourth of July coverage was lacking 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z When the tablets were first dug up, no one could read the curious-looking script, later called cuneiform, in which they were written. How to Read “Gilgamesh” 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Old Babylonian cuneiform tablets recording the Epic of Gilgamesh were first incised around 1800BC. Underland by Robert Macfarlane review – a dazzling journey into deep time 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Well, cuneiform sometimes used symbols that stood for multiple words or concepts. Peachy: the emoji that’s become a political statement 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Dozens of clay tablets covered with cuneiform writing were also found, shedding light on the city’s agriculture. Mysterious 4,000-year-old lost city discovered 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Once we begin to decode contemporary documents from the original cuneiform and determine the function of some artifacts — Walkmen, mobile telephones, a gendered Pac-Man? — we may get some sense of those people who lived then. Opinion | The amazing thing about the ’80s is they were much longer ago than you realize 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z The fine-grained river mud was rolled and patted into shape, sliced, lifted to the eye and, in dazzling sunlight of a scribal courtyard, under supervision, the cuneiform figures were incised.” How to Read “Gilgamesh” 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z With a younger brother, he attended a Catholic boarding school at the Abbey of Montserrat, and he taught himself rudimentary Akkadian and Sumerian by studying the abbey’s vast collection of cuneiform tablets. Miguel Civil, preeminent scholar of world’s oldest written language, dies at 92 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Look at it, think about concepts, and cuneiform, and where Lizzo is ... Peachy: the emoji that’s become a political statement 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Al-Gailani specialized in the study of cylinder seals, engraved surfaces used to print cuneiform impressions and pictographic lore in ancient Assyrian and Babylonian culture. Iraq says goodbye to its beloved archaeologist al-Gailani 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The British Library points to two small cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia. Why we are fascinated by miniature books 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z As far as his understanding goes, the constitution might just as well be carved in cuneiform characters on stone tablets. If Trump is cornered, the judges he disdains may finally bring him down | Walter Shapiro 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z A Catalonian-born professor with a purported photographic memory, he spent decades studying ancient cuneiform tablets, examining the last wedge-shaped traces of what is probably the world’s oldest written language. Miguel Civil, preeminent scholar of world’s oldest written language, dies at 92 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z The museum said Thursday that the eight items, including clay cones with cuneiform inscriptions and a bull-shaped marble pennant, were seized by British police in 2003 from a now-defunct London art dealer. British Museum to return looted antiquities to Iraq 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The forfeited packages included tablets with cuneiform script, one of the earliest systems of writing. U.S. to return thousands of smuggled ancient artifacts to Iraq 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The kitchen's location near the heart of the palace suggests its products were used for ceremonial occasions, and cuneiform tablets from the building mention special priests associated with ritual beverages, Peyronel says. Did ancient Mesopotamians get high? Near Eastern rituals may have included opium, cannabis 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z An array of cuneiform tablets demonstrate how the use of writing spread, first for trade and economic needs and later for religious and literary purposes. ‘One of the most important’ sets of Middle East artifacts unveiled 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z “The earliest surviving examples” the Guinness record book reports, are “those made by scribes on cuneiform clay tablets.” Signing Off on Signing Credit-Card Receipts 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z The administrative function of the building was confirmed when an archive of 28 cuneiform tablets was found in two rooms off the main courtyard. How archaeologists discovered an ancient Assyrian city – and lost it again 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z For advice and guidance, I brought along Christopher Rollston, who studies ancient Near Eastern religions and cultures at The George Washington University here, and is an expert on cuneiform tablets and other ancient texts. Can the Museum of the Bible overcome the sins of the past? 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The artifacts – including up to 300 small clay tablets, bearing inscriptions in the cuneiform script – were reportedly destined for the museum. Inside the sprawling, controversial $500m Museum of the Bible 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The discoveries in the tunnels - reliefs, sculptures, and cuneiform slabs - are spectacular. The archaeological treasures IS failed to destroy 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The Babylonians used a double wedge for nothing as part of cuneiform symbols dating back 5,000 years, while the Mayans used a shell to denote absence in their complex calendar system. Much ado about nothing: ancient Indian text contains earliest zero symbol 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The tablet contains four columns and 15 rows of cuneiform numbers, which conform to the Pythagorean theorem — the relationship between three sides of a right triangle. An ancient clay tablet shows that Babylonian scholars might have invented trigonometry 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z He argues that theoretical abstraction makes the “bills that were under discussion read like cuneiform.” The Right and Left React to Russia, Health Care and More 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z The smuggled artifacts include rare cuneiform tablets, which were personally inspected by the company president and an antiquities consultant. Hobby Lobby accused purchasing thousands of artifacts smuggled from Iraq 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z However, until now it was known only by cuneiform texts and its discovery represents a significant milestone in the history of archaeological research in Iraq. The archaeological treasures IS failed to destroy 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The abstract marks on the cuneiform tablets matched the tokens. How the world's first accountants counted on cuneiform - BBC News 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Her research included visiting the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale to examine the three clay cuneiform tablets dating from about 1700 BC that compose what's likely the world's oldest known cookbook. Joan Nathan talks immigrant food and a recipe for matzo brei chilaquiles from her new cookbook, 'King Solomon's Table' 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z The tunnels lead to bas-reliefs with inscriptions in cuneiform alphabet and two mural sculptures of four women’s faces from the front. Mosul: Iraqi troops find Assyrian treasures in network of Isis tunnels 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z “There are 33 separate recipes, preserved on three different cuneiform tablets,” said Tate Paulette, a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University who studies Mesopotamian cuisine. Humble Iraqi dish offers taste of home for Mosul's displaced 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Christie and Mallowan would be dismayed to learn what has become of the site, according to Prichard, who recalled his grandfather teaching him the basics of cuneiform as a boy. Agatha Christie had little-known role in ancient Nimrud 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z So cuneiform writing was a stylised picture of an impression of a token representing a commodity. How the world's first accountants counted on cuneiform - BBC News 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z The cuneiform tablets are in the Babylonian collection, which is not in her purview, but they inspired her nonetheless. Ah, Finally, Ancient Clay Tablets for Dessert 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z A Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating to circa 3,000 B.C. lists 15 prescriptions, many of which are made from plants — myrtle, thyme, willow — mixed with honey, beer or wine. Could Ancient Remedies Hold the Answer to the Looming Antibiotics Crisis? 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The conference at the University of Pennsylvania is focusing on cuneiform tablets from Ur, an ancient city in southern Iraq. Amid convention buzz, scholars focus on ancient writings 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z There was a book on Arabic grammar, a copy of “The Little Prince,” a cuneiform tablet, a boomerang, a pack of Soviet filterless papirosa cigarettes. Miracle Microbes? 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z They were far older than the samples of writing already discovered in China, Egypt and Mesoamerica, and were written in an abstract script that became known as "cuneiform". How the world's first accountants counted on cuneiform - BBC News 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Not only did her cuneiform cookies beguile her colleagues at the office party, they also gained some measure of internet renown after a Penn Museum publicist posted an article about how she made them. Ah, Finally, Ancient Clay Tablets for Dessert 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Thousands of fragile clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform writing, including administrative records, letters and business deals that provide a glimpse at life nearly 4,000 years ago in the Semitic kingdom of Mari. With jihadis at the door, Syrians rush to rescue history 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z “This was the first planned economy,” said Dominique Charpin, a specialist in cuneiform at the College de France, during a break from examining recently unearthed tablets. Probing the Dawn of Globalized Trade Across the belly of the genie was a smattering of cuneiform in the now extinct language, Akkadian. Museum of Lost Objects: The Genie of Nimrud - BBC News 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z This tablet, with impressions of cuneiform script pressed into clay, did not mention trapezoids, but it recorded the motion of Jupiter, and the numbers matched those on the tablets with the trapezoid calculations. Signs of Modern Astronomy Seen in Ancient Babylon 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z From there, cuneiform cookies started to become — as the newspaper The Forward put it — “a thing.” Ah, Finally, Ancient Clay Tablets for Dessert 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z A federal investigation is underway into the reported shipment of up to 300 small clay tablets, bearing inscriptions in the cuneiform script, that were being imported from Iraq by the Hobby Lobby corporation. Hobby Lobby investigated for trying to import ancient artifacts from Iraq 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Assyriologist Dominique Charpin from Paris’ Sorbonne University, working at the site of ancient Ur, examines a cuneiform tablet excavated by the U.S.-Iraqi team. Probing the Dawn of Globalized Trade Intentionally and unintentionally, modern-day combatants in Iraq and Syria are destroying precious records of antiquity, and more objects like the genie and cuneiform tablets will inevitably slip on to the black market. Museum of Lost Objects: The Genie of Nimrud - BBC News 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z The conditional entropies of the Indus script seem to be most similar to those of Sumerian cuneiform. Ancient civilization: Cracking the Indus script 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z “So cuneiform cookies seemed like a great way to feed them while also giving a tangible link to the subject of Gilgamesh.” Ah, Finally, Ancient Clay Tablets for Dessert 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z But also because of how it looks: like a language that I simply don’t know yet, a new cuneiform of the street. Far Away From Here 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The murals begin with the ancient scripts, including Sumerian figures carving cuneiform and ancient Egyptians making hieroglyphics. Murals showing history of written word installed at library 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z By the middle of the 1850s, Smith was hanging around the British Museum in his lunch hour, peering at the cuneiform tablets that had come from the palaces of the Assyrian kings. The men who uncovered Assyria 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z There is a tribe called the "Habiru" mentioned in ancient cuneiform texts who apparently did battle in Canaan. Living with the J-word 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z Although Ms. Blanchard surmises that shortbread might also be a good medium for cuneiform, it was the gingerbread that went viral, inspiring copycats online. Ah, Finally, Ancient Clay Tablets for Dessert 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z The topic of cuneiform artifacts still roils the archaeological community. Ancient tablets displayed in Jerusalem fuel looting debate 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Covered in minute cuneiform writing, they reveal recipes rich with not only onions, but also leeks, garlic and shallots. Weekendish: The best of the week's reads 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z He went on to find and excavate the Babylonian city of Sippar, to discover the great bronze doors of the palace of Balawat, and to send more than 70,000 cuneiform tablets back to London. The men who uncovered Assyria 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z The world's oldest cookery books - in cuneiform - prove that the Babylonians loved onions. Mapped: The beaches where Lego washes up 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z That’s a good thing for Conner, who after completing a degree in music composition got deeply interested in Babylonian literature and poetry—which was originally recorded in cuneiform, wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets. What Did Ancient Babylonian Songs Sound Like? Something Like This “Tablets, manuscripts and cuneiforms are the most common artifacts being traded, and, unfortunately, this is being seen in Europe and America,” he says. How Does ISIS Fund Its Reign of Terror? But I’m betting that eventually some ancient scribe became irritated when he found his papyrus or cuneiform tablet covered in dog slobber. Pooches who eat paper — and the owners who love them It was one of thousands of fragments from recent excavations in northern Iraq, and was covered in the intricate cuneiform script that had been used across ancient Mesopotamia and deciphered in Smith's own lifetime. The men who uncovered Assyria 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z He looked at the letter as if it were cuneiform. For major league ballplayers, signature moments are part of the game 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Those agreements, known to modern traders as “forwards,” were memorialized in the first written language, a body of symbols known as cuneiform. An excerpt from Kate Kelly's 'The Secret Club That Runs the World' 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z The translation of ancient cuneiform tablets in the 19th century confirmed the Mesopotamian flood myth as an antecedent of the Noah story in the Bible. Before ‘Noah’: Myths of the Flood Are Far Older Than the Bible 2014-04-02T03:14:37Z Flood narrative in cuneiform thus preceded the Hebrew text of Holy Writ by more than a millennium. The Big Flood on the Big Screen 2014-03-27T14:54:07Z By 1860, when he was 20, Smith had started to understand both the cuneiform script and the Akkadian language in which most of the tablets were written. The men who uncovered Assyria 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z A clay tablet with lines of cuneiform writing, originally unearthed in an ancient trash dump in Kandahar, long thought lost, was found in a basement storeroom by the Chicago team. Saving Relics, Afghans Defy the Taliban 2014-01-13T13:32:44Z Wandering around the Istanbul Archaeological Museum I chanced upon a woman carefully moving around a room full of clay tablets of Akkadian cuneiform. Should you even take a camera on holiday? 2013-07-29T11:21:38Z The jumbled cuneiform of pressure ridges and rifts stamped into the icy potsherds fracturing the surface. The ostracons of Europa 2013-07-03T17:20:40.397Z Meanwhile backroom work on the cuneiform origins of the Genesis narrative has been proceeding apace. The Big Flood on the Big Screen 2014-03-27T14:54:07Z The city's financial and administrative systems relied on the world's first known system of writing, cuneiform, which was used to record transactions, issue receipts and compile inventories. The Ur-Metropolis 2013-05-20T22:23:50Z An earlier version of this article incorrectly described a tablet with lines of cuneiform writing, originally unearthed in Kandahar, that restorers found in the basement of the National Museum of Afghanistan. Saving Relics, Afghans Defy the Taliban 2014-01-13T13:32:44Z I visualize the cuneiform tablets on which the ancient Sumerians chiseled the Epic of Gilgamesh. Bookboard Streams Kids' Books to the iPad; But Are E-books Good For Your Children? 2013-04-17T10:45:32Z Some of the earliest forms of writing, such as Sumerian cuneiform, began as characters shaped like the objects they represented—a person's head, an ear of barley, a fish. The Reading Brain in The Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens 2013-04-11T11:45:00.537Z George Smith’s find dated to the 7th century BC, but other cuneiform tablets and fragments have since come to light; the story goes back at least to the 18th century BC in ancient Mesopotamian culture. The Big Flood on the Big Screen 2014-03-27T14:54:07Z The printed book risks going the way of the cuneiform tablet, papyrus scroll or vellum parchment, say the doomsayers. Do you have the write stuff? 2013-02-02T01:02:55Z It is inscribed the earliest form of writing - Babylonian cuneiform. Babylonian artefact to tour US 2012-11-28T01:55:44Z Or how about the earliest known records of writing, Sumerian clay tablets etched with cuneiform script? The Information: a History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick – review 2012-11-22T06:59:01Z Which is that ever since people started chiselling cuneiform on to big stones they've been writing things that will at some point almost certainly be misread and/or misinterpreted by someone else. Is technology killing romance? 2012-06-23T23:03:02Z The remotest Mesopotamian history, as constructed by the ancient chroniclers compiling their tablets in cuneiform, was categorized as before, or after, the Flood. The Big Flood on the Big Screen 2014-03-27T14:54:07Z Both Genesis and the cuneiform documents measure the ark's dimensions by cubits, Berosus by stadia. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z As regards writing, it is most likely that the oldest Hebrew records were preserved in some form of cuneiform script. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Among its illustrations are remarkable sketches of the dodo, cuneiform inscriptions and Persepolis. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z In the Assyrian hall of the British Museum are two statues of the god Nebo, each of which bears a cuneiform inscription saying that they were made for Queen Semiramis by a sculptor of Nineveh. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z Quite recently, however, the British Museum has become possessed of a number of cuneiform tablets which throw considerable light on the subject. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Round the rim was a cuneiform legend, and in the field a Hittite figure with six Hittite symbols engraved twice over on either hand of it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Cut transversely it presents internally a circle of 8 to 12 cuneiform ligneous bundles, surrounded by a thick bark. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z On the outside--or what would correspond to the "tyres"--of each of these wheels, were hundreds of strange cuneiform characters. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z The cuboid is small, and the internal and middle cuneiform bones are small and united together. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The influence of the Semitic queen is attested by the very fact that this library of cuneiform tablets was preserved. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Hittite, cuneiform and old Aramaean monuments were found with many small objects, most of which have been taken to Berlin; but no Hittite inscriptions came to light. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z More important is the fact that the settlers brought the Babylonian cuneiform writing to Cyprus. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z In each arc is a distinct cuneiform character, similar to those which have been found upon the stone monuments of Persia and Arabia. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z The pisiform is large and prominent, flattened and curved; it articulates partly with the cuneiform and partly with the lower end of the radius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z They have various superimposed blotchings, the latest of which are dark, sharp, cuneiform characters, mysterious hieroglyphs of Nature, which might reveal wondrous secrets, could we but decipher them. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z This racial question can hardly be determined till those Hatti records, whether in cuneiform or pictographic script, which are couched in a native tongue, not in Babylonian, are read. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z And after all he was more interested in the thoughts of live men than in mummies and cuneiform inscriptions. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z The cuneiform figure, or character, which lay immediately above the golden bar corresponded to that upon the Sunstone. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z The navicular and the external cuneiform bones are broad and flat. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Traces of the cuneiform and hieroglyphic inscriptions can still be detected upon some of them. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z The other object of interest, which has been carefully described by Sir H. Rawlinson and Sir H. Layard, is specially remarkable as having afforded the key to the decipherment of the cuneiform character. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z While engaged in this service his attention was drawn to the ancient Persian cuneiform inscriptions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z He studied the wheels and took notice of the cuneiform writing on the "tyres". Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z Close to him was a scribe of a semi-religious order, ready provided with cuneiform iron and a supply of kneaded clay. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Herakleopolis, called Hininsu in Egyptian and the cuneiform inscriptions, was the capital of a nome which the Greek writers describe as an island. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z Wedged, cuneiform or wedge-shaped; Wedge′-shaped, having the shape of a wedge; Wedge′-tailed, having the tail wedge-shaped or cuneate.—adv. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z The next problem in the study of cuneiform was the decipherment of the second language in each of the trilingual groups. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The outside, or tyre, of each of these wheels is adorned with hundreds of cuneiform characters, all of them quite different. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z Above these sculptures ran bands of history, in the immaculate cuneiform, giving the story of Babylon from the time of her founding down to to-day. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z How long it continued to be employed there may be gathered from the fact that each district of Western Asia developed its own peculiar form of cuneiform script. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z Ulnā′re, an element of the primitive carpus situated on the ulnar side—represented in man by the cuneiform bone:—pl. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z The cuneiform script had its origin in Babylonia and its inventors were a people whom we call the Sumerians. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z On one side of the Sunstone were the cuneiform characters already mentioned by the Judge. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z Amraphel drew from the pocket of his broad girdle a clay tablet, slightly larger than those in general use for letters, and covered with neatly pressed cuneiform characters. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z The original picture-writing out of which the cuneiform syllabary developed, had been invented by the primitive non-Semitic population of Chaldæa, from whom it had been afterwards adopted and adapted by their Semitic successors. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z In Babylon this system of writing became even more complicated by the fact that different meanings and different phonetic values were ascribed to the same cuneiform groups. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The number of the original picture-signs cannot have been great, but the development of new signs never ceased till the cuneiform script passed wholly from use. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z On one side of this a lion is engraved, and also a line of cuneiform characters, in which is the name of Sargon, king of Assyria, 722 B.C. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Cyrus had come back to the subject of his epistle, and the scribe sat with his cuneiform iron poised in the air, when the scene was broken up. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z The pupil, therefore, who wished to learn the cuneiform syllabary at all thoroughly was compelled to know something of the old Sumerian language of Chaldæa. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z By cuneiform groups both simple and compound syllables are expressed. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The cuneiform writing, begun by the Sumerians in a period so remote that it is idle to speculate concerning it, had a long and very extensive history. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z In the cuneiform inscriptions of Sennacherib, the great king of Assyria, Nineveh is called "the city of Bel," and "the city beloved by Ishtar." Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z Two plaster casts of monuments from Nineveh, now in the British Museum, with cuneiform inscriptions. Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century 2011-12-18T03:00:20.923Z The nature of the cuneiform system of writing would of itself indicate that schools were numerous. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z The greater number of the cuneiform groups were then used in a phonetic as well as an ideographic sense, and without any correlation between the phonetic and actual meaning. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z These cuneiforms are called, from their size, commencing internally, by the names small and great cuneiform. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z In a cuneiform inscription of Nebobelzitri, we read:—"Nineveh the city, the delight of Ishtar, wife of Bel." Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z Four pillars of the chief hall bear the same inscription in cuneiform letters, and, as always, in the Persian, Babylonian, and Turanian languages. The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z The language was that of Babylonia, the script was the cuneiform syllabary of the same country. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z The cuneiform symbol for Sippara means "City of the sun of the four quarters of the earth," and the Euphrates is denoted by a symbol which means "River of Sippara." The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The ulna terminates below in a head and a styloid process; these articulate with the two last bones of the first row of the carpus—viz., the cuneiform and pisiform. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Owing to the fact that the Assyrian cuneiform writings have now been deciphered, there has been found a story of the creation which has many characteristics in common with those of the Bible. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Hence the Persians adopted the year of the Assyrians and Babylonians as well as their cuneiform writing, but they had independent names for the months. The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z Among the ruins of the foreign office of Khu-n-Aten, which adjoined the royal palace, the fellahin found a collection of clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform or wedge-shaped characters. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z This cursive writing of the Western Semitic nations has not, however, arisen out of the cuneiform symbols, but out of the hieratic writing of the Egyptians. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z For example, the astragalus, instead of being above the calcaneum, is situated in front of it; the cuneiform bones, instead of being situated in front of the scaphoid, are found below it, etc. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Like the old Persian cuneiform this is borrowed from a Semitic pattern. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z Persian cuneiform writing, on the other hand, makes use of an oblique wedge sign to separate the words. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z Moses’ history was read by St. Martin who became exceedingly interested in Van, and in the cuneiform inscriptions spoken of. Armenian Legends and Festivals 2011-11-26T03:00:13.237Z Three different kinds of cuneiform writing repeat the same matter in three different languages. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The cuneiforms articulate with the internal half of the superior extremity of the principal metatarsal; the external half of this metatarsal articulates with the portion of bone which represents the cuboid. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z In the West a cuneiform character derived from the writing of Babylon and Assyria had been adopted; the East used the Arian alphabet. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z There was a period then when public opinion went far in declaring the decipherors of cuneiform writing to be visionaries and the whole research a "fraud." A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z The door of the cave is made of stone and covered with cuneiform inscriptions. Armenian Legends and Festivals 2011-11-26T03:00:13.237Z The cuneiform writing, according to the conclusions we have already been compelled to draw, was borrowed by the Elamites and Babylonians from the earlier inhabitants of the lower districts. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z One of these branches is inserted into the anterior surface of the superior extremity of the principal metatarsal, the other into the second cuneiform bone. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z The cuneiform writing of Western Iran, as we find it in the inscriptions of Darius, can therefore hardly have been established before the year 600 B.C. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z At this the mockery of the learned lay world gradually came to an end and the confidence in the reading of cuneiform documents has grown appreciably since then. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z We are, in the absence of direct testimony upon this subject� driven to such evidence as is drawn from sculptured or other remains in ruins and on gems, and to cuneiform and other writings. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z Hence this old writing of the Chaldeans is called cuneiform or wedge-shaped. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z The portion which corresponds to that which is fleshy in the horse arises from the tibia; below, it ends on the inner surface of the superior extremity of the metatarsus and the cuneiform bones. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z It is the cuneiform writing of Assyria and Babylon which forms the basis of the writing in these inscriptions, but with considerable alterations. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z A small stone tablet etched with cuneiform letters might cause difficulties for researchers who want to read it and study the depth of the incised letters. 3-D Printing Gets Ahead: Anthropologists Use Printing Technology to Model Fossils 2011-09-19T12:15:08.747Z It caused clay to become the common writing material of the country, the cuneiform characters being impressed with a stylus upon the tablet while the clay was still moist. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z Announcing that he expected to remain all summer, he put in his mornings at the British Museum studying cuneiform. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z Sometimes a direct imitation of cuneiform characters occurs on the Cypriote cylinders. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z But it did not, and this is a plain proof that the East, when the cuneiform writing of the West came in that direction, was already in possession of another kind of writing. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z The name for Palestine in the cuneiform inscriptions is "Land of the Amorites." The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z The fruit of the expedition was an elaborate memoir by Oppert, which marks an epoch in the history of cuneiform decipherment, and determined the ancient topography of Babylon. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z In looking over the large collection of new cuneiform inscriptions recently brought by Mr. Layard from Assyria, he has met with one recording the annals of the "Koyunjik King." The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Mr. Campbell Thompson has recently translated a series of 300 inscriptions from the cuneiform tablets in the British Museum, and Professor S�dhoff of Leipzig has compiled all the references to medicine in these. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Some cylinders covered with cuneiform inscriptions have not yet been examined. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z An example of cuneiform script from the ancient city of Babylon "A lot of the history of how people went from being merely human to being civilised, happened in Mesopotamia," says Prof Stolper. My word! 2011-06-14T02:14:50Z His examination of the mounds from which it had come led to the discovery of walls and cuneiform inscriptions, which left no doubt in his mind that the site was that of Nineveh. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z It opens up for study “the richest span of cuneiform writing,” he said, referring to the script invented in the fourth millennium B.C. by the earlier Sumerians in Mesopotamia. After 90 Years, a Dictionary of an Ancient World 2011-06-06T20:34:59Z He will get into Latin, then Greek, then Hebrew, then Chaldean, then into cuneiform inscriptions, then into figure representation. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z Man must therefore have set foot on American soil before the sprouting of the linguistic twig which, after millenniums, produced the cuneiform inscriptions of ancient Persia and Assyria. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z In fact, the cuneiform character which signifies “country” also signifies “mountain,” and the hieroglyphic picture out of which it developed is the picture of a mountain-range. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Niebuhr further pointed out that they comprised three different systems of cuneiform writing, which in the case of every text followed one another in a regular order. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z Whether the island was large or small, whether it was round, square, cuneiform, broad, narrow, high or low, we are not told. The Discovery of America by the Northmen, 985-1015 2011-04-05T02:00:12.443Z One place they certainly were making beer is Mesopotamia, where cuneiform tablets record the trade of beer around 4000 BC. The dawn of beer remains elusive in archaeological record 2011-03-28T19:15:00.457Z The subjoined table, for which I have to thank T. G. Pinches, will help to show the genesis of the cuneiform combinations from the earliest known pictographs. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z At the entrance of the sanctuary was a stone coffer, which contained two small alabaster slabs thickly covered with cuneiform writing. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Botta was led by a native to the mound of Khorsabad, and his labours were soon rewarded by the discovery of Assyrian sculptures covered with cuneiform writing. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z Extraordinary labor, coupled with all-sided knowledge, a refined method of observation, and untiring patience, have made it possible to read the hieroglyphics and the so-called cuneiform inscriptions. Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures 2011-03-27T02:00:12.580Z There were two inscriptions; one in the regular cuneiform character, another in the character of the Black Seal, and I realized that my task was accomplished. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z A comparison of the Sumerian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphic systems brings out some curious results. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z At the time when the pictorial hieroglyphics were first being formed out of which the cuneiform characters were to grow, the star was already the symbol and representative of the divine. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The latter comparison was the origin of the term 'cuneiform,' ordinarily applied to them. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z The inscriptions were in three different systems of cuneiform writing; and, since the three kinds of inscription were always placed side by side, it was evident that they represented different versions of the same text. Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures 2011-03-27T02:00:12.580Z They look to me like a kind of cuneiform character, a good deal altered, but this of course is impossible. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z It is a true alphabet of 37 characters, derived by some selective process directly from the Babylonian cuneiforms, without any attempt at a modification of their shapes. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z He had been addressed as “the maker” of the universe and the irrigator of the fields, and the origin of the cuneiform system of writing was ascribed to him. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z These dockets serve to verify the method of cuneiform decipherment, and are an indication that in the time of Tiglath-pileser III and his successors Aramaic was the common language of trade. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z The right arm was the original bed, and the left arm, on which Babylon was built, the artificial deviation, as is clear from the cuneiform inscriptions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The inscriptions are in the cuneiform character, of the class usually termed Babylonian. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z Consequently their cuneiform groups, although possessing phonetic value, mainly express full syllables, scarcely ever letters, and rarely complete words. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Even the strange statement that “a river went out of Eden,” which “was parted and became into four heads,” is explained by the cuneiform texts. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z We are now well acquainted with the history of Nabonidos and the fall of his empire, thanks to three cuneiform documents which have been found in Babylonia. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z And the odd part about the blade was that the middle portion of the steel was perforated with queer letters of the cuneiform type, and filled in with copper. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z These consist of views of the monuments and sculptures, together with copies of the inscriptions in the cuneiform, or arrow-head character. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z Professor Hilprecht had a broken Assyrian cylinder in cuneiform which he could not decipher; but in a dream an Assyrian priest in ancient garb appeared to him and deciphered the inscription. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Behind the human figures of the Semitic gods the primitively pictorial character of the cuneiform signs enables us to discern the lineaments of figures that belong to a wholly different sphere of religious thought. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The slaughter was great on both sides, and Sennacherib claims a complete victory, though the Babylonian Chronicle—a cuneiform document compiled from a Babylonian point of view—implies that such was not altogether the case. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z The smooth bark of large Hollies is often attacked by one of the most striking of our native lichens—Graphis elegans—whose black fruiting portions look like a raised cuneiform inscription. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z The peculiarities of these several varieties, with the countries in which they are found, are pointed out in the second chapter of our author's learned Memoir on cuneiform writing. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z But both languages were written in cuneiform, meaning wedge-shaped, after the shape of the marks made by punching a reed into clay. An Exhibition That Gets to the (Square) Root of Sumerian Math 2010-11-22T22:35:00Z The published texts did not suffice for such a work; they needed to be supplemented from that great mass of unpublished cuneiform documents with which the rooms of our museums are filled. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z It is, however, to George Frederick Grotefend, of Hanover, that the discovery of the key which has unlocked the secrets of cuneiform literature is really due. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z When inspectors examined the shipment at Newark they found the cuneiform tablets, each one smaller than a deck of cards, and an expert verified that they had been looted from southern Iraq. Detoured by 9/11 Attack, 4,000-Year-Old Tablets Make It Back to Iraq 2010-09-16T16:17:00Z Carved from black diorite, it is 30 inches tall, headless, but inscribed with cuneiform that says it was placed in a temple in Ur, in what is now southern Iraq, to please the god Enil. Iraq?s Looted Treasures in a Revolving Door 2010-09-07T20:01:00Z But cuneiform numbers are simple to write because each is a combination of only two symbols, those for 1 and 10. An Exhibition That Gets to the (Square) Root of Sumerian Math 2010-11-22T22:35:00Z In the present volume, therefore, the materials are presupposed; they will be found for the most part either in my Hibbert Lectures or in the cuneiform texts which have since been published. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z From this time forward the only kings mentioned in the cuneiform tablets are foreigners, Persians, Greeks, and Parthians. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z The entire record of ancient Iraq is preserved in these cuneiform tablets and other cuneiform documents that were made at the time of these ancient civilizations. Detoured by 9/11 Attack, 4,000-Year-Old Tablets Make It Back to Iraq 2010-09-16T16:17:00Z One of the 100 objects analysed for the Radio 4 series was an early writing tablet, made of clay, written in cuneiform and dating back to Ancient Iraq. The missing items 2010-03-31T08:38:00Z Covered in tiny lettering called cuneiform, it is said to represent the first bill of rights and encapsulate religious tolerance. 2010-02-07T01:53:00Z Here the empire of Sargon of Akkad grew up, and the cuneiform syllabary became an imperfect means for expressing the sounds of a Semitic language. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z It only remained to fit them to the characters in the cuneiform texts. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z Various attempts have been made, with little success, to identify fragments of unknown languages in cuneiform inscriptions with members of this group. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" ARSACES, a Persian name, which occurs on a Persian seal, where it is written in cuneiform characters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" In sapphire gulfs of ocean he can visit islets, above which the wings of myriads of sea-fowl make a kind of shifting cuneiform script in the air. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open But when the hieroglyphic pictures were first invented, out of which the cuneiform characters afterwards developed, the spirit was already on the way to becoming a god. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z His inscriptions are written in cuneiform, in Assyrian, whilst those of his successors are in cuneiform, in their own language, which is neither Aryan nor Semitic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Of the planets five were recognized—Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Mercury and Mars—to name them in the order in which they appear in the older cuneiform literature; in later texts Mercury and Saturn change places. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Interesting discoveries have been made on its site, more especially of numerous and valuable inscriptions in the cuneiform or arrow-head character. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis In regard to the history of these monarchies, much light has been obtained from the decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli There is little evidence in support of the theory that the Phœnician alphabet had developed from the Assyrian cuneiform. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide In 1879 Professor Sepp, arguing that Jesus was of no human race, had proposed that Christianity should reject the Hebrew Scriptures and seek a fresh historical basis in the cuneiform inscriptions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" A group of signs carved on some rocks near Višegrad have been regarded as cuneiform writing, but are probably medieval masonic symbols. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" As early as 2400 B.C., in Babylonia, legal decisions, revenue accounts, &c. were inscribed in cuneiform characters on clay tablets and placed in jars, arranged on shelves and labelled by clay tablets attached by straws. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Certain school books for primary schools were actually printed in cuneiform characters in order to enhance their authority over the youthful imagination. Underground Man What is known of them has been learned from the cuneiform inscriptions. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide In considering how early literature has been preserved, therefore, we are hardly concerned with Egyptian papyri or cuneiform tablets, but with the writings of Greece and Rome, or writings produced under Greek or Roman influence. The Story of Books It is a remarkable fact that the kings or chiefs of the neighbourhood should have used Babylonian cuneiform in their own official correspondence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" These tablets, with cuneiform inscriptions recording sales of slaves, loans of money and small matters generally, are often enclosed in an outer shell of the same shape and impressed with a short title. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" The name of Arioch is actually found on the cuneiform monuments. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments A few cuneiform transcriptions, reaching as far back as the XVIIIth Dynasty, give valuable hints as to how Egyptian was pronounced in the 15th century b.c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" But Burnouf's arguments, based at first on grammatical evidence only, were irresistible, and have of late been most signally confirmed by the discovery of the cuneiform inscriptions of Darius and Xerxes. Lectures on The Science of Language The cuneiform inscriptions relating to the Babylonian legend of the Creation and Fall of Man, which have been discovered by English archæologists, are not, however, complete. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning Practically all the cuneiform inscriptions quoted or referred to in this chapter are translated in R. W. Rogers, Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament. The Christian View of the Old Testament This was the empire of Cyrus, about whom the cuneiform records have recently given us information of a most startling kind. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments Fortunately the native records are largely supplemented by others: valuable information comes from cuneiform literature, belonging to two widely separated periods. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The same, if we compare the language of the Zend-avesta with that of the cuneiform inscriptions of Darius. Lectures on The Science of Language And it was not long afterward that Vincent was examining cuneiform tablets in the State Museum. The Six Fingers of Time In its cuneiform text it was first discovered on fragments of tablets brought from the library of Ashurbanipal. The Christian View of the Old Testament No account has yet been discovered among the cuneiform documents of the campaigns of Nebuchadrezzar against Tyre and Judah. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments These, re-edited in cuneiform and kept conveniently on the second floor of his palace, fell with Nineveh, where, until recently recovered, for millennia they lay. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal That Aryan was used as a title of honor in the Persian empire is clearly shown by the cuneiform inscriptions of Darius. Lectures on The Science of Language You all smell of the pit, of that old mud of the cuneiforms of the land between the rivers, of the people who were before the people.” The Six Fingers of Time Doubtless much still remains to be done; but the essential thing, from the present standpoint, is that a sufficient knowledge of the Assyrian language has been acquired to ensure trustworthy translations of the cuneiform texts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" His name has not yet been discovered in the cuneiform records. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments The cuneiform characters and the hieroglyphics were representatives of ideas, though there could be no pronunciation of them. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. If we are ever to recover a knowledge of that ancient Babylonian literature, it must be from the cuneiform inscriptions lately brought home from Babylon and Nineveh. Lectures on The Science of Language The upper row of the carpus consists of the united scaphoid, lunar and cuneiform bones. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" The Accadians bequeathed their system to the Babylonians, and cuneiform tablets and cylinders, boundary stones, and Euphratean art generally, point to the existence of a well-defined system of star names in their early history. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" Now Mr. George Smith discovered some broken fragments of a cuneiform text which evidently related to the building of the Tower of Babel. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments All the letters from the people of Canaan to the Egyptian king and his Foreign Office were written in cuneiform. The Bible in its Making The most Wonderful Book in the World Berosus was able to read the cuneiform documents of Babylonia with the same ease with which Manetho read the papyri of Egypt. Lectures on The Science of Language Attempts have been made to connect it with the Assyrian cuneiform, and for many years it was commonly believed to have been derived from the hieratic form of the Egyptian. Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 The Babylonians and Assyrians developed the cuneiform method of writing. History of Human Society The decipherment of the cuneiform or wedge-shaped inscriptions of Assyria has been one of the most marvellous achievements of the present century. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments Chinese is supposed to be the most difficult language to learn in our day; but the ancient cuneiform was certainly quite as complicated as Chinese. The Bible in its Making The most Wonderful Book in the World Berosus, his study and cultivation of the Greek language, 94. his history of Babylon, 95. his knowledge of the cuneiform inscriptions, 95. Lectures on The Science of Language The resultant mark was like the following: This script is called “cuneiform,” from two Latin words meaning “wedge shaped,” from the obvious resemblance of the marks to wedges. Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 Why should the cuneiforms have any bearing on the morals of a backwoods Canadian? The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country At the same time, the hieroglyphic origin of the cuneiform mode of writing has been productive of disadvantages as well as of advantages. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments A few years ago, however, Belshazzar's name was found on an old cuneiform tablet. The Bible in its Making The most Wonderful Book in the World But this was an illusion, which a more profound study of the cuneiform document has dispelled. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 Assertions are not wanting in the cuneiform literature that beliefs and practices of this kind formed no part of the true religion of Babylonia, and some scholars regard it as a late degeneration. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Rawlinson at deciphering the cuneiform inscriptions, have disclosed a new world to the architectural student, without which some of the developments of Greek architecture must have remained obscure. Architecture Classic and Early Christian The inventors of the cuneiform system of writing had been a people who preceded the Semites in the occupation of Babylonia, and who spoke an agglutinative language utterly different from that of their Semitic successors. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments The cuneiform had no real alphabet, only 'signs.' The Bible in its Making The most Wonderful Book in the World It will be readily admitted that in order to deal with ancient Assyrian history it is necessary to have learnt to decipher cuneiform inscriptions. Introduction to the Study of History What is yet wanted is some cuneiform statement of the size or area of something which can be exactly identified and measured. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters The Jews had not, so far as there is any present evidence, learned the term in Babylon, for the word has not yet been found as a star-name on any cuneiform inscription. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture Travellers had discovered inscriptions engraved in cuneiform, or, as they were also termed, arrow-headed, characters on the ruined monuments of Persepolis and other ancient sites in Persia. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments Very likely a Babylonian book written in cuneiform, and pretending to describe the Creation of the world, and the story of the Ark and the great Flood found its way into Egypt. The Bible in its Making The most Wonderful Book in the World The base of the second metatarsal and the first cuneiform are sometimes fractured. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Indeed, for many of them, it is the cuneiform that now gives the key to their possible sense. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters The writing on these tablets is cuneiform, and the matter is of profound historic importance, illustrating, as it does, the relations between Egypt and western Asia in the fifteenth century b.c. Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings We can understand, therefore, how it was that the wedge, the essential element of all those groups which make up cuneiform writing, became for the Assyrian one of the holy symbols of the divine intelligence. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 The writing on it is neither Egyptian nor cuneiform, but a very ancient kind of Hebrew. The Bible in its Making The most Wonderful Book in the World The talus comes to rest on the third cuneiform and cuboid bones, the foot being abducted, inverted, and displaced medially. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. The presence of short inscriptions in Aramaic on a few contract-tablets naturally raised hopes, in the early days of decipherment, of finding some check upon the reading of cuneiform. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters A large number of them have inscriptions in a complex cuneiform character peculiar to Babylon. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life The language in which most of our cuneiform inscriptions are written, the language, that is, that we call Assyrian, is closely allied to the Hebrew. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 The translators of the cuneiform inscriptions represent crucifixion as the common punishment for rebellion and treason. Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. Alexander was murdered in the palace of Nebuchadrezzar, which must therefore have been still standing, and cuneiform texts show that, even under the Seleucids, E-Saggila was not wholly a ruin. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" So far as these went they were by no means inconsistent with the readings of the cuneiform. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters The furrow produced is at first the wedge-shaped or cuneiform ravine, already so much dwelt upon in my lectures on Greek sculpture. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving This tablet is, however, quite exceptional, and, as a rule, the cuneiform characters cannot thus be traced to their primitive form. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 No traces of windows are found in the walls, which were lined with slabs of coarse marble, with cuneiform inscriptions. Ancient States and Empires Before the decipherment of the cuneiform texts our knowledge of its history, however, was scanty and questionable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" But, alas! there were no hieroglyphics or cuneiform inscriptions to assist the antiquary in his researches. Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Truly these cuneiform characters were strange and difficult to decipher! Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century We cannot follow all the fluctuations of the conflict; the information left by the early historians is vague and contradictory, and we have no cuneiform inscriptions to help us out. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 All this is tradition, but recent discoveries in cuneiform literature shed light upon it. Ancient States and Empires Layard at Nineveh opened up a new world, coinciding as they did with the successful decipherment of the cuneiform system of writing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Anu is the chief national god of the Assyrians, according to the cuneiform inscriptions. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities Botanical Description.—A tree, 18° high, with leaves cuneiform, glabrous, stiff, short-petioled. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Writing had not yet become entirely cuneiform, it had not yet adopted those triangular strokes which are called sometimes nails, sometimes arrow-heads, and sometimes wedges, as the exclusive constituents of its character. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 But in spite of these exceptions, it was at once recognised that all the documents were written in Babylonian cuneiform. The Tell El Amarna Period Of this stage we have ample evidence afforded by the cuneiform inscriptions of Assyria. The Idea of God in Early Religions The signs became cuneiform characters, and the Babylonian wrote them upon clay instead of stone. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs He visited also the ruins in the plain of Mel Amir, and copied some of their cuneiform inscriptions. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Thus vanished the horse of Darius, and the curious confirmation which the cuneiform inscription was at one time supposed to lend to the Persian legend recorded by Herodotus. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion Occasionally a Babylonian word is followed by the corresponding Canaanite word, also in cuneiform, but marked as a translation. The Tell El Amarna Period And the evidence of the cuneiform inscriptions is particularly interesting and instructive on the way in which this came about. The Idea of God in Early Religions They were the founders of its great cities and temples, the inventors of the pictorial system of writing out of which the cuneiform characters subsequently developed, the instructors in culture of their Semitic neighbors. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs On the first of these points the study of Chaldean cuneiform monuments throws considerable light, while the latter does not admit of more than guesses—of which something hereafter. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria Lassen translated one of the cuneiform inscriptions, copied originally by Niebuhr from a huge slab built in the southern wall of the great platform at Persepolis, in the following manner: 'Auramazdis magnus est. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion On the other hand, the letters of the king of Mitani are drawn up in the characters known as Assyrian; and it is probable that the Assyrian system of cuneiform may have originated in Mitani. The Tell El Amarna Period What marks them as religious, in the cuneiform inscriptions, is their context: it shows that the power, relied on for the accomplishment of the desires expressed in these petitions, was the power of the gods. The Idea of God in Early Religions At all events, after his epoch the cuneiform script underwent but little real change. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs Smith at once knew that he had discovered a fragment of the cuneiform narrative of the Deluge. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria Many persons who have read the translation of the cuneiform inscriptions are glad, no doubt, to have the authentic and contemporaneous records of Darius and Xerxes. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion The projecting part of the first cuneiform bone which supports the great toe I was obliged to divide with a saw. A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners The Surpu tablets of the cuneiform inscriptions, which are directed towards the removal of the mamit, the ban or taboo, consequent upon such offences, are an example of this. The Idea of God in Early Religions The cuneiform characters had been classified and named; they had also been arranged according to the number and position of the separate wedges of which they consisted. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs At such times he wrinkles his forehead in a peculiar manner, inscrutable at first as a cuneiform inscription, but as easily read after you once get the key. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) Language is the oldest monument which we possess of man's mental power, older than stone weapons, than cuneiform inscriptions, than hieroglyphics. The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour It was full as thick as a man’s arm, and covered with green leaves and large crimson cuneiform blossoms, such as belonged to itself. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness When Mr Le ffaçasé read my contribution I knew there would be no concern in future whether it was handwritten, typewritten, or engraved in Babylonic cuneiform on a freshly baked brick. Greener Than You Think Wherever the ancient culture of Babylonia had spread, there had gone with it not only the cuneiform characters and the use of clay as a writing material, but the art of letter-writing as well. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs The fourth glume is borne by a short rachilla which is about 1/3 the length of the third glume or less, shorter than the third, cuneiform, empty and awned. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Broken pottery and fragments of brick, inscribed with cuneiform characters, were strewn on all sides. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure A generation which will listen to "Pinafore" for three hundred nights, and will read M. Zola's seventeenth romance, can no more read Homer than it could read a cuneiform inscription. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV In the name of my lord I will put my seal on the treaty, if it be written on bricks in cuneiform letters, for I do not understand your writing. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt What we call cuneiform is essentially a cursive hand. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs Of course that is not to jump to the conclusion that they were cuneiform characters that looked like finger-prints. The Book of the Damned I now dug down the face of one of the stones, and a cuneiform inscription was soon exposed to view. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure It will read about Homer just as it will read about a cuneiform inscription, and will crowd to see a few pots which probably came from the neighborhood of Troy. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV About the universe which I inhabited I knew as little as I did about cuneiform writings. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell The cuneiform system of writing allows a large number of words to be compressed into a small space, and the writing is generally so minute as to try the eyes of the modern decipherer. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs We read and translate correctly the hieroglyphics of the Nile, the cuneiform tablets of Mesopotamia and the sacred books, Zend or Pahlavi, of Parseeism. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Her ardor might have suggested an archæologist over a cuneiform inscription, as she tried to decide whether a certain patch of blue and white was a pillow or a table-cover. The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story As regards scripts, the earliest alphabetical texts date only from about 900 B. C., but previous to this period we have to deal with the cuneiform, the Egyptian, the Hittite and the Cypriote characters. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 Now the Babylonian Zodiac was solar, and, in spite of repeated researches, no trace of a lunar Zodiac has been found, where so many things have been found, in the cuneiform inscriptions. India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge A vast collection of the cuneiform literature of Babylonia is gathered by him for the benefit of his subjects, as he is at constant pains to tell us. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria The picture of an altar has been engraved upon it, and down one side runs a cuneiform inscription of ten lines. The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 "Grotefend only had the word for 'king' when he started reading Persian cuneiform." Omnilingual 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 Sea-Kings of Crete There is an inscription on it, some characters carved in the stone which are, as he said, the history of it, but to me they are as unintelligible as the Assyrian cuneiform would be. The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension In cuneiform texts the old Bel is at times invoked as the creator of mankind. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria The great impetus Page 134 given to cuneiform studies has made it necessary that the tablets should be catalogued, and the trustees have now issued a descriptive catalogue of some 8,000 inscribed tablets. The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Shelby slid his extended fingers forward haphazard to a learned periodical, which fell open to a discussion of cuneiform inscriptions. The Henchman The analogy of the more or less contemporary tablets, written in cuneiform script, found in the Palace of Tell-el-Amarna, might lead us to expect among them the letters from distant governors or diplomatic correspondence. The Sea-Kings of Crete Sculpture and painting were largely illustrations accompanying a history written in the ever-present cuneiform characters. A Text-Book of the History of Painting Those who cling to the theory of a non-Semitic origin of the cuneiform syllabary will, of course, be ready to answer in the affirmative. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Mr. Bliss has found among the débris a cuneiform tablet, together with certain Babylonian cylinders and imitations or forgeries of those manufactured in Egypt. The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Intermingled with these scenes of ancient civilization are inscriptions of great interest, in the cuneiform or wedge-shaped character. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Some practical joker produced a cylinder alleged to be in cuneiform writing. A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden When curving of the tibia causes disability in walking, the bone may be straightened by a cuneiform resection. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. A new feature, however, of Layard's excavations was the finding of several rooms filled with fragments of small and large clay tablets closely inscribed on both sides in the cuneiform characters. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Cuneiform Writing.—For many years the cuneiform writing has occupied the labors of many scholars impatient to decipher it. History Of Ancient Civilization He knew there were artists who shunned Bohemia, and once he had met a barber whose enthusiasms were all for cuneiform inscriptions. Destiny When alabaster, or any other hard material, was substituted for clay, the sculptor imitated these natural dabs or triangular imprints; and that was the origin of those mysterious and very learned-looking cuneiforms. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Sir Robert Ker Porter mentions a block of stone found among the ruins of Susa, having, on one side, inscriptions in the cuneiform diameter; and, on another, hieroglyphical figures with a cross in the corner. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution In Assyria, finally, a special variety of cuneiform developed that is easily distinguished from the Babylonian by its greater neatness and the more vertical position of the wedges. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria While resident at Baghdad, he devoted his leisure time to cuneiform studies. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria The reconstruction of these tablets was undertaken by George Smith, an English Assyriologist of the British Museum, who displayed great skill and earnest application in the deciphering of the cuneiform text. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 The strict dependence of writing, indeed, upon the material employed is nowhere better shown than in the case of the Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science They seem to have alternated with cuneiform inscriptions, in white on a blue ground, or else with a patterning of rosettes in the same colors. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. In the old cuneiform writing the same sign is used to indicate "lord" or "lady" when attached to deities. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria 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. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria The writing on these "books" is the cuneiform, and was done by impressing the "style" on the clay while in a waxlike condition. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 His picture-writing grew into hieroglyphs and cuneiforms, and finally emerged, by imperceptible steps, into alphabetic symbols, the raw material of the art of printing. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science 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 Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. Again, it is not to be denied that the theory of the Semitic origin of the cuneiform writing encounters obstacles that cannot easily be set aside. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Rawlinson's translation of the famous inscription was an important contribution towards the decipherment of the cuneiform writings of Assyria and Babylonia. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria The best linguists in Europe have accepted the decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions as a thing actually accomplished. 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. The language of Babylon was perhaps the Court tongue, and the correspondence was written in cuneiform instead of in the hieratic script of Egypt. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology In the winter of 1887-88 there were discovered there about three hundred clay tablets, covered with cuneiform inscriptions which have since been deciphered. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 31, June 10, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Further publications of cuneiform texts may throw light upon this point. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria The revelation of Assyrian civilization through Rawlinson's decipherment of cuneiform and the excavations of Botta and Layard in the middle of the nineteenth century was followed by a concerted attack on Babylonia. Recent Developments in European Thought Such was the theory, originally advanced by Gesenius, which, variously modified by other writers, held its ground on the whole as the established view, until the recent cuneiform discoveries. 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. "Dear child," the Dean responded, happily, as he bent down to trace the curious, cuneiform markings which circled the urn. Kit of Greenacre Farm The Easterns had their cuneiform or arrow-headed symbols, and the Western world has even yet its quipus, and tells its history by the number of its knots. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 The massing together of the primaeval waters completes the picture of chaos in the cuneiform account. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria The cuneiform inscriptions have given us an explanation of the fact. Patriarchal Palestine The cuneiform writing arose when clay took the place of stone as a material. 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. Those glass cases, those pictures, those big jugs, say no more to the crowd than a cuneiform or a Hittite inscription. As We Are and As We May Be It is seven feet in height, and is inscribed elaborately in the cuneiform character. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits At the same time, the manner in which both traditions have been worked over by the Hebrew compilers of Genesis precludes, as has been pointed out, the theory of a direct borrowing from cuneiform documents. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria The name is written differently in the cuneiform texts from that of the Ethiopians, the Kash of the hieroglyphic inscriptions. Patriarchal Palestine The writing—as in all cuneiform inscriptions, excepting those upon seals—is from left to right, and the lines are carefully separated from one another. 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. It is built of bricks, each one of which is stamped in cuneiform characters. War in the Garden of Eden Aramaic, 63, 66, 93; cuneiform, 51, 87, in Cyprus, 57, Greek, 44, 51 f; Hittite, 51, 62; Latin, 53; Lycian,51; Lydian, 51; in Palestinian tombs, 71; Semitic, 62, 66 f., How to Observe in Archaeology The investigations of Delitzsch have shown that the more than four hundred cuneiform characters in use can be reduced to a comparatively small number of 'outlines' of pictures—to about forty-five. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria In the cuneiform texts of Ebed-Tob and the later Assyrian kings the name of Jerusalem is written Uru-Salim, "the city of Salim." Patriarchal Palestine One of his emblems is the "wedge" or "arrowhead," the essential element of cuneiform writing, which seems to be assigned to him as the inventor, or at least the patron of the Chaldaean alphabet. 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. The cuneiform writing of the Babylonians and Persians remained a mystery also until modern times, but great progress has now been made in the deciphering of thousands of inscribed clay tablets, cylinders, prisms, etc. The Revelation Explained About l00 B.C. the use of cuneiform was given up; clay tablets were no longer used. How to Observe in Archaeology This account of Berosus is now confirmed by the cuneiform records. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria When the cuneiform syllabary was superseded in Palestine by the so-called Phoenician alphabet we do not know. Patriarchal Palestine 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. The meaning of it, so long in dispute, has finally been practically determined through a new discovery in the cuneiform inscriptions. The Tracer of Lost Persons 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. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations Such a term is the product of the schools, and finds a ready explanation if we remember that the cuneiform script, like other scripts, was in its first stages pictorial. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria It is further clear that the memoranda had been noted down in the cuneiform characters of Babylonia and not in the hieroglyphs of Egypt. Patriarchal Palestine The Pahlavi inscriptions gave the key, as is well-known, to the Persian cuneiform inscriptions, which were in return to put beyond all doubt the genuineness of the Zend language. Sacred Books of the East "The cuneiform records have thrown unexpected light on difficulties which were the despair of bygone generations of scholars," and quotes one which makes Astyages the captive of Cyrus. The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study It was this foreign correspondence which was embodied in the cuneiform tablets. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations A distinction between the Biblical and the cuneiform cosmology at this point is no less significant. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Like the Babylonian words, they are written in cuneiform characters, and since these denote syllables and not mere letters we know exactly how the words were pronounced. Patriarchal Palestine Nine out of every ten of the people I met or passed spoke in a language that to me was as unintelligibly mysterious as the cuneiform characters on Mr. Layard's Nineveh sculptures. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 Only in this way can we account for the surprising fact that the Babylonian cuneiform script and the Babylonian language form the means of communication between the east and west and between Egypt and Canaan. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 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. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations The productions not only represent the highest stage which religious thought reached in the Euphrates Valley, but, in a certain sense, constitute the only productions in cuneiform literature that have a permanent literary value. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria The cuneiform inscriptions of Babylonia contain frequent references to it. Patriarchal Palestine About midway across the larger log a cuneiform notch or cut about six inches deep was made, and in the wedge-shaped notch punk was placed. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul "Your uncle could read the cuneiform character, then?" The Mystery of 31 New Inn |
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