cuneiforms
Ancient wedge-shaped script
Cuneiforms are the wedge-shaped characters of ancient Mesopotamian writing systems, pressed into clay tablets with a stylus.
The term also refers to wedge-shaped bones in the foot—three small bones between the ankle and metatarsals.
In both cases, the defining feature is the tapered, wedge-like shape: cuneiform script, the medial cuneiform bone.
Tapering to an edge
- scriptWritten words for performance
- SumerianEarliest known civilization
- AkkadianAncient Semitic Mesopotamian language
- BabylonianOf ancient Mesopotamian empire
Assyrian · tablets · inscriptions · logographic · syllabary · scribes · stylus · clay
Rigid internal support structure
skeletal · medial · lateral · intermediate · navicular · articulation · joints · hand
Act of unearthing
- tabletsFlat portable computing devices
- NinevehAssyrian empire's seat
- UrEarly Mesopotamian metropolis
- artifactsHuman-made historical objects
museum · fragments · archives · library · discovery · translation · preservation · collection
Ancient Sumerian heroic verse
- Code of HammurabiAncient Babylonian legal collection
- Enuma ElishBabylonian cosmogonic narrative
- treatiesFormal agreements between states
- administrativeRelated to organization management
royal · correspondence · literature · legal · contracts · receipts · omens · prayers
wedge-shaped
Tapering to an edge
- scriptWritten words for performance
- SumerianEarliest known civilization
- AkkadianAncient Semitic Mesopotamian language
Babylonian · Assyrian · tablets · inscriptions · logographic · syllabary · scribes · stylus · clay · Mesopotamian
bones
Rigid internal support structure
foot · skeletal · medial · lateral · intermediate · navicular · articulation · joints · hand · ossification
excavation
Act of unearthing
artifacts · museum · fragments · archives · library · discovery · translation · preservation · collection · curators
Epic of Gilgamesh
Ancient Sumerian heroic verse
- Code of HammurabiAncient Babylonian legal collection
- Enuma ElishBabylonian cosmogonic narrative
- treatiesFormal agreements between states
administrative · royal · correspondence · literature · legal · contracts · receipts · omens · prayers · mythology
cuneiformsdigital text
Computerized written content
hieroglyphics · Egyptian hieroglyphs · Latin alphabet · Roman script · Greek alphabet
cuneiformstalus
Ankle's main bone
calcaneus · navicular · metatarsals · phalanges · long bones
- cuneiform tabletAncient Sumerian written record
- cuneiform writingWedge-shaped ancient script
- cuneiform scriptWedge-shaped ancient writing