wedge-writing
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editwedge-writing (plural wedge-writings)
- Writing predominantly featuring the use of wedge-shaped characters; cuneiform
- 1885, Johns Hopkins University Circulars - Volumes 4-8:
- 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.
- 1889, Friedrich Delitzsch, Assyrian Grammar:
- The Assyro-Babylonian wedge-writing was originally a straight-line picture-writing.
- 1996, Peter T. Daniels, William Bright, The World's Writing Systems:
- 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.
- 2013, Thomas H. Perdue, Mashiah Versus Anti-Mashiah:
- 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.
- 2014, Nils Anfinset, Melanie Wrigglesworth, Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe:
- The term “evil eye” is known from Sumerian wedge writings from the third millennium bce.
- 1885, Johns Hopkins University Circulars - Volumes 4-8: