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He taught himself to read Assyrian cuneiform during lunch hours in the British Museum.
This tale was written 4,000 years ago, but was only translated from cuneiform in the 1970s.
The early chapters deal with hieroglyphic and cuneiform systems - the "seedbed from which the alphabet sprang" (p. 57).
Classicists were uninterested, theologians were hostile, and even other orientalists usually treated the discipline's new subfield with suspicion if not contempt (most liberal-era orientalists did not learn cuneiform).
Cuneiform texts were written on clay tablets, on which symbols were drawn with a blunt reed used as a stylus.
Cuneiform literally means wedge-shaped, due to the triangular tip of the stylus used for impressing signs on wet clay.
Its contents consisted of 70 cuneiform tablets comprising 7,000 celestial omens.
Lateral to the abductor hallucis is the flexor hallucis brevis, which originates from the medial cuneiform bone and from the tendon of the tibialis posterior.
The sound /h/ in cuneiform is in the modern literature sometimes transliterated as "kh".
This archaic "cuneiform" (wedge-shaped) mode of writing co-existed with the pre-cuneiform archaic mode.
The scribal texts proved to be very helpful in deciphering cuneiform.
Although some of these cuneiform tablets have been deciphered, difficulty with site excavations has obscured the purpose and sometimes even the structure of many buildings.
An extensive cuneiform script, below an encircling register line, around the top cone, tells the story of the kudurru.
These tablets were inscribed in a strange illegible form of writing known as cuneiform.
In 1030% of cases, a tibialis anterior tendon transfer to the lateral cuneiform is performed when the child is approximately three years of age.
He found a few inscribed bricks, and a single cuneiform tablet.
A large number of cuneiform tablets were found in the palace.
