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CUNEIFORM

A term for a variety of writing systems using “wedge-shaped” (Lat. cuneatus) graphemes. The triangular heads of the individual strokes of the symbols were created by pressing the point of a (usually) reed stylus into wet clay. The symbols were reproduced with a chisel for metal and stone inscriptions. The Sumerians developed this manner of writing in the late 3rd millennium b.c.e. to record business transactions. The symbols were originally pictographic, eventually becoming primarily syllabic. A number of language groups adopted (and adapted) the system, including Akkadian, Eblaite, Ugaritic (an alphabetic writing system), Hittite, Elamite, Hurrian, and Old Persian.

Mark Anthony Phelps






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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