Kalakisha (Kelekesh in Breasted's orthography) bears to the cuneiform Hilakku (beside Hilak).
The other, Keshkesh, seems to bear the same relationship to the cuneiform Kasku which the Eg.
Layard at Nineveh opened up a new world, coinciding as they did with the successful decipherment of the cuneiform system of writing.
Before the decipherment of the cuneiform texts our knowledge of its history, however, was scanty and questionable.
According to the developed cuneiform system of writing, words may be written by means of a sign (or combination of signs) expressive of the entire word, or they may be spelled out phonetically in syllables.
Of special texts and monographs bearing on the religion may be mentioned various volumes in the new series of cuneiform texts from Babylonian tablets, &c.
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.
Even in the distant colony at Kara Euyuk near Kaisariyeh (Caesarea) in Cappadocia cuneiform tablets show that the Assyrian settlers used it in the 15th century B.
The success of these works proved that they had helped to satisfy a want long felt by students of the Egyptian language, and as a similar want existed among students of the languages written in the cuneiform character, Mr. L.
The most ancient piece of white transparent glass known is described by Layard as a cup whereupon is cut the name of King Sargon in cuneiform characters--consequently an Assyrian work from the end of the seventh century B.
The steps and part of the shaft are carved with cuneiform inscriptions, and with reliefs which represent an act of homage--the presentation to the king of various gifts, animals, etc.
The seals of Babylonia and Assyria are usually so much alike that they are to be distinguished only by the character of the cuneiform inscriptions, or, in some instances, by the mythological subjects represented.
An old cuneiform text, recopied late, however, appears to call the year of the deluge (i.
A distinguished mathematician, he furthermore was one of the earliest interpreters of cuneiform writing; M.
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.
The cuneiform or arrow-shaped character used by the ancient Chaldeans, Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians, is supposed to owe its peculiar form to the material on which it was habitually graven by those who employed it.
For when Nineveh fell before the Persians, they adopted the cuneiform writing of the Assyrians.
Mention is made in a cuneiform text (Annals of Sargon, 715 B.
The texts consist of 77 lines (not all legible), giving a good deal of information about an obscure place and period hitherto known only from cuneiform sources.
The city is mentioned in the earliest cuneiform records, and from the time of Hammurabi was the chief city of the land.
The great source of knowledge is the rapidly increasing store of records in the cuneiform character.
The cuneiform characters were originally pictures; but these were resolved into wedge-shaped characters of uniform appearance, the significance of which was determined by their position and local relation to one another.
A flippant pupil once remarked that the Professor's face was furnished with a Babylonic cuneiformin lieu of features.
The Professor screwed up his face till it looked more like a cuneiform than ever.
The Bible informs us why Sennacherib left Hezekiah unpunished, and never despatched another army to Palestine; the cuneiform annals explain the causes of his murder, and the reason of the flight of his sons to Ararat or Armenia.
It might have been thought that the cuneiform or wedge-shaped inscriptions of Assyria could never be forced to reveal their mysteries.
The Accadians invented the cuneiform system of writing, founded the chief cities and civilisation of Babylonia, and erected the earliest Babylonian monuments with which we are acquainted.
Sarzec at a place called Tel-Loh; on these we see the early pictures in the very act of passing into cuneiform characters, the pictures being sometimes preserved and sometimes already lost.
The origin of the cuneiform system of writing was ascribed to Nebo.
However this may be, we know from the cuneiform monuments that the rise of Assyria did not take place until the Babylonian monarchy was already growing old.
Before thecuneiform monuments were interpreted, no one could have suspected that they would have poured such a flood of light upon Old Testament history.
Under the combined influence of the clay tablet and the metal stylus, the old picture-writing began to degenerate into the cuneiform or 'wedge-shaped' characters with which the monuments of Assyria have made us familiar.
Step by step the signification of the cuneiform characters and the words they concealed was made out, until it is now possible to translate an ordinary Assyrian text with as much ease and certainty as a page of the Old Testament.
Illustration: Fragment now in the British Museum showing primitive Hieroglyphics and Cuneiform Characters side by side.
The Accadians had been the inventors of the hieroglyphics or pictorial characters out of which the cuneiform characters had afterwards grown.
The explorer must know the history of the cuneiform from 2700 B.
Persia, had engraved a great cuneiform inscription (11 or 12 ft.
The decipherment of the cuneiform texts put an end to all such speculations.
Until the decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions, he was known only from the book of Daniel (v.
As it chances, however, these have been of aid rather in the later stages of Assyrian study than at the very outset; and the first clew to the message of the cuneiform writing came through a slightly different channel.
Moreover, all three of its inscriptions are in cuneiform characters, and all three are in languages that at the beginning of our century were absolutely unknown.
The resemblance is so striking that this is sometimes called the arrow-head character, though it is more generally known as the wedge or cuneiform character.
One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus, which articulates with the ulna and corresponds to the cuneiform in man.
The art of writing in cuneiform characters, or of deciphering inscriptions made in such characters.
This does not mean that literacy has to be discarded altogether, or that it will disappear, as cuneiform notation and pictographic writing did, or that it will be replaced by drawing or by computer-based language processing.
From its incipient phase, it also related disjoint worlds, but at a level other than that achieved in Sumerian cuneiform notation.
A cuneiform notation, over 3,500 years old, testifies to a Sumerian who looked at the nightly skies and saw a lion, a bull, and a scorpion.
French Assyriologist Jean Bottero read recipes, in cuneiform writing on clay tablets from around 1700 BCE, for food cooked at important occasions for people in power.
A large number of them have inscriptions in a complex cuneiform character peculiar to Babylon.
He also found, at the foot of the mound, a monument about three feet high, and rounded at the top, containing a figure with a long cuneiform inscription, and above it various sacred emblems.
In fact, it can be said without fear of contradiction that it is the best historical production of any cuneiform people.
Is this one of the "cuneiform inscriptions near Moosh" reported to Taylor, Athenaeum, 1863, I.
Rogers, Cuneiform Parallels to the, Old Testament, gives an up to date translation of those passages which throw light on the Biblical writings.
Now in the Morgan collection, Johns, Cuneiform Inscriptions, 33.
A cuneiform inscription runs right across the relief, interrupted only by the fringes of the robes.
The skirt of the dress is covered with an inscription in cuneiform characters.
But this was an illusion, which a more profound study of the cuneiform document has dispelled.
We need not introduce here the myth of the great cosmogonic struggle between Tiamat, the personification of Chaos, and the god Masuduk, related in a portion of the epic fragments, in cuneiform character, discovered by George Smith.
SAYCE gave some Cappadocian Cuneiform Tablets from Kara Eyuk, affiliating them with early Assyrian rulers.
But the others, Chedorlaomer King of Elam and Tidal king of 'Nations', are also accounted for by a series of misreadings either in cuneiform or out of it into Hebrew or in Hebrew.
The doubts thrown on the historicity of the chapter by higher critics were based on arguments which, sound or not, are in no way touched by any cuneiform texts.
If they had it written down in cuneiform even, it was probably translated into Canaanite.
Series A, Cuneiform Texts, of the Publications of the Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania).
The first point has been that, assuming a cuneiform record to be translated by a Hebrew writer (?
But what credence are we to give to this Hebrew writer's reading of cuneiform in the case of the name of Abraham?
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.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cuneiform" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
