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 Cuneiform
2,546 words, approx. 9 pages system of writing used in the ancient Middle East. The name, a coinage from Latin and Middle French roots meaning “wedge-shaped”, has been the modern designation from the early 18th century onward. Cuneiform was the most widespread and... summary from source:
 Numbers and Writing Summary
548 words, approx. 2 pagesThis Sumerian clay tablet from ancient southern Mesopotamia shows a tally of sheep and goats using incised cuneiform characters. Denise Schmandt-Besserat made... summary from source:
Cuneiform Writing
184 words, approx. 1 pagesSystem of writing employed in ancient times to write a number of languages of the Middle East. The original and primary writing material for cuneiform texts was a damp clay tablet, into which the scribe would press a wedge-shaped stroke with a reed... summary from source:
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4,710 words, approx. 16 pages
The cuneiform (kjuːniːəfɔːm) script is one of the earliest known forms of written expression. Created by the Sumerians from ca. 3000 BC (with predecessors reaching into the late 4th millennium Uruk IV period[1]), cuneiform writing began as a system...
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 The Journal of the American Oriental Society Canaanite in cuneiform.
10/01/2004: 23,048 words, approx. 77 pages It has become a truism that Akkadian, the principal Semitic language of ancient Mesopotamia, was the lingua franca of the Near East during the second millennium B.C.E. This is stated, more or less in so many words, in any number of works on... summary from source:
The Journal of the American Oriental Society Cuneiform alphabets from Syria and Palestine.
01/01/1993: 2,007 words, approx. 7 pages In this book devoted to various types of cuneiform alphabets from the Late Bronze age found in Ugarit and other sites in Syria, Lebanon,and Palestine, M. Dietrich and O. Loretz deal with the texts in the "short alphabet" and the alphabet tablet of Bet... summary from source:
 AP News Swiss, eBay stop sale of Iraqi treasure
12/18/2007: 362 words, approx. 1 pagesA 4,000-year-old clay tablet authorities suspect was smuggled illegally from Iraq was pulled from eBay just minutes before the close of the online auction, authorities said Tuesday.Criminal proceedings have been launched against the seller, identified only as a resident of Zurich, officials said.A German archaeologist... summary from source:
AP News Antique dealer is sentenced in art fraud
11/16/2007: 415 words, approx. 1 pagesAn antique dealer was sentenced Friday to nearly five years in prison for working with his parents to create sophisticated fakes of statues, paintings and other works and passing them off as priceless.Judge William Morris sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh, 47, of Bolton, to four years and...
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