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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.
- Escrita cuneiforme
Escrita cuneiforme. Trecho extraído do Cilindro de Ciro...
- Antigo cuneiforme persa
O antigo cuneiforme persa é uma escrita cuneiforme semi-...
- Proto-cuneiform
The proto-cuneiform script was a system of proto-writing...
- Escrita cuneiforme
- Early Cuneiform
- Development of Cuneiform
- Cuneiform Decipherment & Impact
- Conclusion
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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...
Learn about cuneiform, the ancient writing system of Mesopotamia, from its origins to its decline. Discover how cuneiform was used for administration, literature, religion, and more.
- Joshua J. Mark
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Cuneiform was the most widespread and historically significant writing system in the ancient Middle East. Learn about its origin, character, spread, and development from Sumerian to Akkadian, and its role in Mesopotamian culture and civilization.
- Jaan Puhvel
