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cuneiform

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1. cuneiform - Noun

2. cuneiform - Adjective

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Alt. of Cuniform

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform. Julian Jaynes

There is a complete lack of reference to business profits or loss in any of the cuneiform tablets that have been so far translated. Julian Jaynes

About that time, Mesopotamian cuneiform became a general purpose writing system for logograms, syllables, and numbers. Source: Internet

Academic historian and archaeologist Anne O Nomis has undertaken research revealing cuneiform texts dedicated to Inanna which incorporate domination rituals. Source: Internet

Also, the middle radical can be geminated, which is represented by a doubled consonant in transcription (and sometimes in the cuneiform writing itself). Source: Internet

Also the campaigns into Syria and Mesopotamia may be responsible for the reintroduction of cuneiform writing into Anatolia, since the Hittite script is quite different from the script of the preceding Assyrian Colony period. Source: Internet

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