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Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. Cuneiform scripts are marked by and named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions (Latin: cuneus) which form their signs.
- Cuneiform (Unicode block)
Cuneiform; Range: U+12000..U+123FF (1,024 code points)...
- Decipherment
Digital approaches. Notes. References. Decipherment of...
- Cuneiform (Unicode block)
- Early Cuneiform
- Development of Cuneiform
- Cuneiform Decipherment & Impact
- Conclusion
The earliest cuneiform tablets, known as proto-cuneiform, were pictorial, as the subjects they addressed were more concrete and visible (a king, a battle, a flood) and were developed in response to the need for long-distance communication in trade. Sophisticated compositions were unnecessary since all that was required was an understanding of the t...
One no longer had to struggle with the meaning of a pictograph; one now read a word-concept, which more clearly conveyed the meaning of the writer. The number of characters used in writing was also reduced from over 1,000 to 600 in order to simplify and clarify the written word. The best example of this is given by scholar PaulKriwaczek who notes t...
The great literary works of Mesopotamia such as the Atrahasis, The Descent of Inanna,The Myth of Etana, the Enuma Elish, and the famous Epic of Gilgameshwere all written in cuneiform and were completely unknown until the mid-19th century when men like George Smith, the Reverend Edward Hincks, Jules Oppert, and Rawlinson deciphered the language and ...
Along with other Assyriologists (among them, T. G. Pinches and Edwin Norris), Rawlinson spearheaded the development of Mesopotamian language studies, and his Cuneiform Inscriptions of Ancient Babylon and Assyria, along with his other works, became the standard reference on the subject following their publication in the 1860s and remain respected sc...
- Joshua J. Mark
Cuneiform, system of writing used in the ancient Middle East. The name, a coinage from Latin and Middle French roots meaning ‘wedge-shaped,’ has been the modern designation from the early 18th century onward. Learn more about cuneiform’s development and influence.
- Jaan Puhvel
Cuneiform. Trilingual cuneiform inscription of Xerxes at Van Fortress in Turkey, written in Old Persian, Akkadian, and Elamite. It is a letter, and the script is cuneiform, the date ~2400 BC. Cuneiform script is one of the earliest known systems of writing. [1] It used wedge -shaped marks on clay tablets, made by a reed stylus.
Learn the basics of cuneiform script, the oldest form of writing in the world, with a curator's guide and a video tutorial. Find out more about the history, languages and sources of cuneiform from the British Museum's blog and book.
