cuneiform

Details

Instance of

writing system, logographic writing system, syllabary, natural writing system, unicase alphabet

Subclass of

natural writing system, logographic writing system

Inception

3000 BCE

End time

1st century BCE

Location

Near East

described by source

The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)

discoverer or inventor

Sumerians

language of work or name

Sumerian, Akkadian, Eblaite, Elamite, Hittite, Hurrian, Luwian, Urartian, Old Persian, Palaic, Ugaritic, Hattic

name

Cuneiform, Sumero-Akkadian, cunéiforme suméro-akkadien, Cuneiform

named after

nail

script directionality

left-to-right

time period

Uruk V Period, Uruk IV Period, Uruk III Period, Proto-Elamite period, Early Dynastic I, Early Dynastic II, Early Dynastic IIIa, Early Dynastic IIIb, Ebla Period, Akkad period, Old Elamite period, Linear Elamite Period

topic's main category

Category:Cuneiform

Unicode range

U+12000-123FF, U+12400-1247F, U+12480-1254F

used by

cuneiform clay tablet

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