0 of a form of writing used for over 3,000 years until the 1st century BC in the ancient countries of Western Asia
1 pointed at one end and wide at the other:
cuneiform bones
2 a form of writing used for over 3,000 years until the 1st century BC in the ancient countries of Western Asia:
3 an ancient Mesopotamian and Persian form of writing in which thin wooden sticks with triangular ends are pressed into wet clay.
A large number of cuneiform tablets were found in the palace.
He found a few inscribed bricks, and a single cuneiform tablet.
In 1030% of cases, a tibialis anterior tendon transfer to the lateral cuneiform is performed when the child is approximately three years of age.
These tablets were inscribed in a strange illegible form of writing known as cuneiform.
An extensive cuneiform script, below an encircling register line, around the top cone, tells the story of the kudurru.
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.
The scribal texts proved to be very helpful in deciphering cuneiform.
This archaic "cuneiform" (wedge-shaped) mode of writing co-existed with the pre-cuneiform archaic mode.
