Wedge-writing

"Wedge-writing" in a Sentence (5 examples)

The script in which the Assyrian texts are written is called cuneiform or wedge-writing because of its constituent elements: the horizontal, vertical and oblique wedge.

The Assyro-Babylonian wedge-writing was originally a straight-line picture-writing.

Argillographic records are those written on clay, the medium of choice for wedge writing; nearly all Akkadian (cuneiform) records are preserved on clay; many of the wedge-abjad records of Ugaritic are also preserved on clay.

Our concern is that it came on the scene after the confusion of tongues and lasted a very short time, then Cuneiform or wedge-writing came into use.

The term “evil eye” is known from Sumerian wedge writings from the third millennium bce.

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