Sentences with phrase «cuneiform characters»
Cuneiform characters were imprinted on wet clay tablets using a reed stylus and then dried in the sun.
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A clay tablet with cuneiform characters may contain a mathematical technique that was believed to be invented 1,400 years later
The brown clay tablet, which could fit in the palm of your hand, is scrawled with hasty, highly abbreviated cuneiform characters.
The discovery, in the year 1901 - 1902, of a black diorite stele covered with column upon column of cuneiform characters, was an epoch - making event in the study of ancient Babylonia.
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On these were written, in what is known as cuneiform, that is wedge - shaped characters, the texts they wished to communicate or preserve.
They left out so - called logographic writing systems like Chinese and Sumerian cuneiform, which they say have too many characters and are too visually complex to easily analyze.
Consisting of four columns and 15 rows of numbers inscribed in cuneiform, the famous P322 tablet was discovered in the early 1900s in what is now southern Iraq by archaeologist, antiquities dealer, and diplomat Edgar Banks, the inspiration for the fictional character Indiana Jones.