cuneiform

Examples of cuneiform in the following topics:

• Akkad

  • Before Akkad was identified in Mesopotamian cuneiform texts, the city was only known from a single reference in Genesis 10:10.
  • However, the city of Akkad is mentioned more than 160 times in cuneiform sources ranging in date from the Akkadian period itself (2350–2170 or 2230–2050 BCE, according to respectively the Middle or Short Chronology) to the sixth century BCE.
  • Cuneiform sources also suggest that the Akkadians worshipped Ishtar.
  • A combined analysis of cuneiform and topographical/archaeological field survey data led archaeologist Harvey Weiss to suggest that Akkad is modern Ishan Mizyad, a large site approximately 3.1 miles northwest from Kish.

• Government and Trade in the Achaemenid Empire

  • In addition to describing the genealogy of Cyrus, the declaration in Akkadian cuneiform script on the cylinder is considered by many Biblical scholars as evidence of Cyrus’s policy of repatriation of the Jewish people following their captivity in Babylon.
  • The Behistun Inscription, the text of which Darius wrote, came to have great linguistic significance as a crucial clue in deciphering cuneiform script.
  • The inscription, which is approximately 15 meters high and 25 meters wide, includes three versions of the text in three different cuneiform languages: Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian, which was a version of Akkadian.
  • Researchers were able to compare the scripts and use it to help decipher ancient languages, in this way making the Behistun Inscription as valuable to cuneiform as the Rosetta Stone is to Egyptian hieroglyphs.
  • A section of the Behistun Inscription on a limestone cliff of Mount Behistun in western Iran, which became a key in deciphering cuneiform script.

• Ceramics in Mesopotamia

  • A collection of administrative texts in cuneiform writing on display at the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago.

• The Mesopotamian Cultures

  • An early form of wedge-shaped writing called cuneiform developed in the early Sumerian period.
  • During this time, cuneiform and pictograms suggest the abundance of pottery and other artistic traditions.
  • Example of Sumerian pictorial cuneiform writing.

• The Sumerians

  • Many Sumerian clay tablets written in cuneiform script have been discovered.
  • Initially, pictograms were used, followed by cuneiform, and then ideograms.
  • Sumerians invented or improved a wide range of technology, including the wheel, cuneiform script, arithmetic, geometry, irrigation, saws and other tools, sandals, chariots, harpoons, and beer.

• Tarsals, Metatarsals, and Phalanges (The Foot)

  • There are four distal tarsals, the lateral cuboid and the medial three cuneiforms.

• Arches of the Feet

  • It is made up by the calcaneus, the talus, the navicular, the three cuneiforms, and the first, second, and third metatarsals.
  • While these medial and lateral arches may be readily demonstrated as the component antero-posterior arches of the foot, the fundamental longitudinal arch is contributed to by both, and consists of the calcaneus, cuboid, third cuneiform, and third metatarsal: all the other bones of the foot may be removed without destroying this arch.

• The Hittites

  • Furthermore, the Hittites used Mesopotamian cuneiform letters.
  • Archaeological expeditions have discovered in Hattusa entire sets of royal archives in cuneiform tablets.

• Hammurabi's Code

  • A basalt stele containing the code in cuneiform script inscribed in the Akkadian language is currently on display in the Louvre, in Paris, France.
  • This basalt stele has the Code of Hammurabi inscribed in cuneiform script in the Akkadian language.

• Sculpture in Mesopotamia

  • Sculptural forms include humans, animals, and cylinder seals with cuneiform writing and imagery in the round or as reliefs.
  • A cylinder seal discovered in the royal tomb of Queen Puabi depicts two registers of a palace banquet scene punctuated by cuneiform script, marking a growing complexity in the imagery of this form of notarization.
  • On the right hand side of the stele, cuneiform script provides narration.