How to use in-sentence of “cuneiform”:
+ A cuneiform tablet found in 1986 shows that Ugarit was destroyed after the death of Merneptah, about 1178 BC.
+ Babylonian cuneiform numerals were written in cuneiform, using a wedge-tipped reed stylus to make a mark on a soft clay tablet which would be exposed in the sun to harden to create a permanent record.
+ The Sumerian language continued as a religious language taught in schools in Babylonia and Assyria, for as long as cuneiform was used.
+ The first-known Semitic language, it used the cuneiform scriptcuneiform writing system from ancient Sumer.
+ The equivalents in cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphics are called determinatives.
+ Sumerian culture is famous for its written cuneiform script – where letters were formed by pressing a triangle shaped reed into wet-clay tiles.
Example sentences of “cuneiform”:
+ The world’s first recorded chemist is considered to be a woman named Tapputi, a perfume maker who was mentioned in a cuneiform tablet from the 2nd millennium BC in Mesopotamia.
+ The oldest instructions for building a coracle are on a 4000-year-old cuneiform clay tablet.
+ Styli of wood or metal have been used for thousands of years, for example in cuneiform writing.
+ Each version of cuneiform had to be deciphered separately, because all the languages were different.
+ In the summer of 2017, archaeologists from the University of Tübingen in Germany uncovered a collection of AssyriaAssyrian cuneiform tablets hidden inside a collection of ceramic jugs.
+ The first known mention was found on cuneiform tablets from Babylonia dating to 2000-1880 B.C.E.
+ The peace treaty was recorded in two versions, one in Egyptian hieroglyphs, the other in Akkadian languageAkkadian, using cuneiform script; both versions survive.
+ The world's first recorded chemist is considered to be a woman named Tapputi, a perfume maker who was mentioned in a cuneiform tablet from the 2nd millennium BC in Mesopotamia.
+ The oldest instructions for building a coracle are on a 4000-year-old cuneiform clay tablet.
+ Styli of wood or metal have been used for thousands of years, for example in cuneiform writing.
+ Dilmun appears first in Sumerian languageSumerian cuneiform clay tablets from the end of fourth millennium BC.
+ All the kingdoms of ancient Mesopotamia used the cuneiform writing system invented by the Sumerians.
+ The ancient writing called cuneiform was first used around 3000 BC by the Sumerians.
+ One was in Egyptian hieroglyphics, the other in Akkadian, using cuneiform script.