How to Use cuneiform in a Sentence

cuneiform

noun

• The cuneiform script is tiny, and crammed tightly to all four edges of the tablet.
  — Robert MacFarlane, The New York Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2022
• The cuneiform script revealed that the city was indeed Mardaman.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 17 May 2018
• Its impact will be equal to the invention of the internet and cuneiform.
  — Kian Bakhtiari, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
• Elsewhere in the temple were clay tablets covered in cuneiform script.
  — Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2022
• The Sumerians, who first put stylus to stone more than 5,000 years ago, used the star symbol to denote a king or a god on cuneiform tablets.
  — Cory Oldweiler, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
• Pollinger pointed out one near the entrance that will hold the Gilgamesh dream tablet, a cuneiform tablet inscribed with a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 16 Oct. 2017
• Inside, the vessels contained more than 100 clay tablets with cuneiform script scrawled across the surface.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2022
• On it, cuneiform text describes the opposite side, including details about the sizes of the fields.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2021
• Akkadian is a Semitic language, and it was written in a cuneiform script.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 7 Sep. 2017
• The tablet on which this episode was recorded, along with thousands of other stones inscribed in cuneiform writing,...
  — James Romm, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2020
• The Imago Mundi is a simple clay tablet carved with cuneiform writing.
  — Shannon Stirone, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2020
• These soldiers’ symptoms were recorded not on paper charts, but on cuneiform tablets inscribed in Mesopotamia more than 3,000 years ago.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 16 June 2020
• The narrative gallops on to Mesopotamia, Nineveh, clay tablets, cuneiform and Gilgamesh.
  — John Sutherland, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2018
• Paw prints of a dog that wandered onto the drying clay more than 2,000 years ago obscure part of the cuneiform inscription — a reminder that these ruins were once a living city.
  — New York Times, 6 Feb. 2021
• The shipping labels on these packages falsely described the cuneiform tablets as tile samples.
  — Peggy McGlone, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2018
• Smith was a young working-class Londoner who had taught himself to read cuneiform during his lunch hours while employed as an engraver at a printing firm in the 1860s.
  — Robert MacFarlane, The New York Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2022
• However, the bone at the base of our big toe—called the medial cuneiform—has a connection for the big toe that is more curved and slightly more angled than what is found in humans today.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 5 July 2018
• Experts say the items—a fragment of a stone tablet inscribed with cuneiform characters and a prism used to teach children the cuneiform alphabet—are at least 4,000 years old.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
• The recent return results from years of effort and includes thousands of cuneiform tablets, ancient seals, and other items.
  — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2021
• Some of the earliest known writing—called cuneiform—has been uncovered at Ur, including seals that mention the city.
  — Mahan Kalpa, National Geographic, 11 Mar. 2016
• The other contains a description of the land—including marshy areas, a threshing floor and a nearby tower—in cuneiform script.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2021
• In a stroke of luck, the writing on the beakers also turned out to overlap with other Elamite-language texts written in a different system, a version of the cuneiform used to record Akkadian.
  — Josephine Quinn, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
• The show includes more than 200 objects that conjure the texture of life in the ancient region, from sculptures of kings, demons and dogs to brilliant ceramics and cuneiform inscriptions.
  — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2020
• Pottery vessels, in which cuneiform tablets were stored, are standing in the corner of a room from the Middle Assyrian period.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 2 June 2022
• And there were 371 cylinder seals — small engraved stone cylinders that, when rolled on wet clay, create raised images that can include cuneiform writing or pictures.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 3 May 2018
• Those artifacts are among a half-million or so cuneiform tablets in museum collections around the world and are of interest to scholars and researchers.
  — Washington Post, 29 July 2021
• The earliest surviving recipes, which give instructions for a series of meaty stews, are inscribed on cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia.
  — Helen Zoe Veit, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2017
• The troop-placement trenches, by contrast, dug to protect several hundred men in nuclear-warfare drills, look, from the sky, like the marks of a reed stylus on an ancient cuneiform tablet.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2019
• Johns becomes a scribe incising clay, making his own abstract cuneiform tablets.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2021
• Green is creating a permanent, public home for his collection of handwritten scrolls, rare books and ancient cuneiform tablets the family has amassed over the decades.
  — Forbes Wealth Team, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024