Cuneiform

The cuneiform alphabet invented by the Sumerians was used by many languages in the ancient Near East.

The cuneiform script was used for more than 22 centuries.

It is in the cuneiform records of Babylonia that we catch the first glimpse of the early history of Canaan.

About midway across the larger log a cuneiform notch or cut about six inches deep was made.

The cuneiform tendon is always sharply defined when the hock is flexed by the action of the muscle.

The cuneiform leaf is not the characteristic heart-shaped early form (O. and P., p. 241).

There, too, it was originally the vulgar script in contrast with the official cuneiform script employed for all official documents, compacts, etc.

The text is inscribed on a clay tablet of a very unusual format. The only other known mathematical cuneiform text on a clay tablet of a similar format is also the only previously known Kassite (and therefore post-Old-Babylonian) mathematical cuneiform text.