One of the three tarsal bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals. They are usually designated as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively.
One of the carpal bones usually articulating with the ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare.
Developed by the Sumerians and used throughout ancient Mesopotamia, it consisted of arrangements of arrowhead-shaped marks impressed into a clay tablet. The earliest cuneiform inscriptions are mainly records of economic transactions and inventory documents.
writing in the form of wedge like symbols
Early Mesopotamian writing that used a stylus (writing implement) to write wedge-shaped impressions on raw clay; from the Latin word for wedge.
The Sumerian writing style of wedge-shaped characters that are pressed into damp clay with a stylus.
adjective, Latin cuneus = wedge, hence wedge-shaped.
Wedge-shaped charactes used in writing a large number of Near Eastern languages, for example, Sumerian, Assyrian, Persian; presumably invented by the Sumerians at the end of the fourth millennium B.C.
Cuneatus or wedge-shaped: with straight sides converging at the base. (late cuneatus when they make an angel of 90 degrees or more and anguste cuneatus when they make an angle of less than 90 degrees)
An ancient method of writing in Mesopotamia whereby characters are formed by the arrangement of small wedge-shaped elements
A writing system invented by the Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia. It was often inscribed on damp clay tablets using a wedge-shaped stylus. Cuneiform means "wedge writing" in Latin.
a system of writing in which wedge-shaped letters were forced into soft clay or carved into them
Earliest known writing system that was developed in Mesopotamia. Debitage - Debris that remains from the manufacturing of stone tools.
Type of script with signs comprising wedge-shaped lines, originally written on mud tablets, used to write a range of languages, including Akkadian and Sumerian.
wedge-shaped bone; applied particularly to three of the bones in the tarsus of the foot.
Sumerian form of writing, (from the Latin term for "wedge-shaped") used to describe the strokes of the stylus. (p. 9)
a form of script used in Southwest Asia during the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age; literally, "wedge-shaped"
The word cuneiform, derived from the Latin cuneus "nail," literally means "nailshaped (writing)." Each character is formed by a number of strokes, each of which resembles the wedge-shaped form of a nail. The signs were made with a pointed reed stylus in soft clay that was molded into a tablet-shaped form. The system was used in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) in a period of over three thousand years (3,200 BC Ð 100 AD) for a variety of languages, most importantly Sumerian and Akkadian. Each of the approximately 700 cuneiform signs may represent one or more words and/or one or more syllables.
The written language of Mesopotamia and surrounding regions. It was written with a stylus into soft clay.!-- google_ad_client = "pub-6607258750979944"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280; google_ad_format = "336x280_as"; google_ad_channel =""; google_color_border = "000000"; google_color_bg = "F0F0F0"; google_color_link = "0000FF"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "000000";
kyU nEE uh fôrm, kyU nEE uh-] A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge-shaped stylus and clay tablets. (p. 32)
The earliest standardized writing system (used [first in ancient Mesopotamia [and later throughout the Ancient Near East]). A form of writing on wet clay tablets using a wedge-like writing tool called a stylus.
cuneus = a wedge, and forma = form. Anything wedge-shaped. Used in anatomy for wedge-shaped distal tarsals or carpals. in mammalian osteology, one of the carpal bones, normally articulating distally with the unciform and proximally with the ulna & pisiform. See image at unciform.