Crossword-Solution: CUNEIFORM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Cuneiform | a. | Alt. of Cuniform |
| Cuneiform | n. | Alt. of Cuniform |
We have 18 clues for the answer “CUNEIFORM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | 1 answer |
| Writing with wedges and such | 1 answer |
| OLD Persian writing style | 1 answer |
| Like Assyrian writing | 1 answer |
| HITTITE writing system | 1 answer |
| Babylonian writing system | 1 answer |
| ARROW-headed marks in ancient inscriptions | 1 answer |
| Babylonian characters | 1 answer |
| Ancient writing system | 2 answers |
| Chips off the old block? | 2 answers |
| HAND bone | 5 answers |
| BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN GODDESS OF LOVE AND FERTILITY AND WAR | 10 answers |
| Babylonian hero | 10 answers |
| HAND and wrist, bone of the | 12 answers |
| Babylonian | 12 answers |
| FOOT bone(s) | 25 answers |
| Writing | 61 answers |
| Letter | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CUNEIFORM (5)
But how about those curious cuneiform characters? How had writing assumed so remarkable a form? His surmise was this: that the brickmakers, in telling their tale of bricks, used the triangular corner of another brick, and by pressing it down upon the soft clay, left behind it the triangular mark which the cuneiform character exhibits.
For Schrader, see his The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament, Whitehouse's translation, London, 1885, vol.
Since the invention of the cuneiform alphabet, by which pictures have been reduced to phonetic signs, the attempt has been made to arrange or classify these gods according to their proper order in the Pantheon, but thus far much obscurity and doubt seem to pervade their history.
The guess may be hazarded that cephalhematoma, hydrocephalus, meningocele, nevi, or an excessive amount of vernix caseosa were the conditions indicated, but a wider acquaintance with the meaning of the cuneiform characters is necessary before any certain identification is possible.
But Europe was busy with many other things and it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that the first "cuneiform inscriptions" (so-called because the letters were wedge-shaped and wedge is called "Cuneus" in Latin) were brought to Europe by a Danish surveyor, named Niebuhr.
Quotes with CUNEIFORM (3)
How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that…we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.
In our profession, we tend to name things exactly as we see them. Big red stars we call red giants. Small white stars we call white dwarfs. When stars are made of neutrons, we call them neutron stars. Stars that pulse, we call them pulsars. In biology they come up with big Latin words for things. MDs write prescriptions in a cuneiform that patients can’t understand, hand them to the pharmacist, who understands the cuneiform. It’s some long fancy chemical thing, which we inges…
Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (2001–2013).