wedge-writing

plural wedge-writings · alternative wedge writing

1. A form of writing predominantly featuring the use of wedge-shaped characters; cuneiform.

   The Assyro-Babylonian wedge-writing was originally a straight-line picture-writing.

   1889, Friedrich Delitzsch, Assyrian Grammar

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   The script in which the Assyrian texts are written is called cuneiform or wedge-writing because of its constituent elements: the horizontal, vertical and oblique wedge.

   1885, Johns Hopkins University Circulars - Volumes 4-8

   Argillographic records are those written on clay, the medium of choice for wedge writing; nearly all Akkadian (cuneiform) records are preserved on clay; many of the wedge-abjad records of Ugaritic are also preserved on clay.

   1996, Peter T. Daniels, William Bright, The World's Writing Systems

   Our concern is that it came on the scene after the confusion of tongues and lasted a very short time, then Cuneiform or wedge-writing came into use.

   2013, Thomas H. Perdue, Mashiah Versus Anti-Mashiah

   The term “evil eye” is known from Sumerian wedge writings from the third millennium bce.

   2014, Nils Anfinset, Melanie Wrigglesworth, Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe