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The skirt of the dress is covered with an inscription in cuneiform characters.
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It is written in the cuneiform characters, in three languages-Median ,Persian ,andAssyrian.
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Here were discovered many clay tablets in cuneiform characters containing documents in the Babylonian language.
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The signs became cuneiform characters, and the Babylonian wrote them upon clay instead of stone.
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Broken pottery and fragments of brick, inscribed with cuneiform characters, were strewn on all sides.
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But how about those curious cuneiform characters?
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On one of these the name of Darius is written in the Persian cuneiform characters, and on a cartouche in the Egyptian form.
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Here he has found numberless historical inscriptions, besides a text in hieroglyphics which may cast light on the origin of the cuneiform characters.
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So far as archaeology can teach us, the builders of the Babylonian cities, the inventors of the cuneiform characters, had behind them no barbarous past.
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[Footnote: This important inscription is written in the cuneiform characters, and in three languages, Aryan, Turanian, and Semitic.