Meanings of cuneiform inscriptions in English

The cuneiform inscriptions have given us an explanation of the fact.

Though broken they have been partially restored and are among the most precious cuneiform inscriptions.

The first morning he had six Arabs at work, and found alabaster slabs with cuneiform inscriptions.

In the cuneiform inscriptions of Bisitun or Behistun, he is called Bartja, or, according to Spiegel, Bardiya.

Many cuneiform inscriptions were impressed with a piece of wood on clay, and are legible millenniums after.

The best linguists in Europe have accepted the decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions as a thing actually accomplished.

He visited also the ruins in the plain of Mel Amir, and copied some of their cuneiform inscriptions.

Emanuel Deutsch, one of the great authorities on cuneiform inscriptions, gives us the following information as regards them:-

Shelby slid his extended fingers forward haphazard to a learned periodical, which fell open to a discussion of cuneiform inscriptions.

It is even possible that in the Madyes of Herodotos, we have a reminiscence of the Manda of the cuneiform inscriptions.

A copy of it was acquired in 1616 by Pietro della Valle, one of the first discoverers of the cuneiform inscriptions.

A considerable quantity of marble slabs, with reliefs and cuneiform inscriptions, were carefully detached from the walls and sent to England.

The strict dependence of writing, indeed, upon the material employed is nowhere better shown than in the case of the Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions.

The writing-asin all cuneiform inscriptions, excepting those upon seals-isfrom left to right, and the lines are carefully separated from one another.

Irving Finkel is Assistant Keeper at the British Museum, where he is curator in charge of cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia.

In the winter of 1887-88 there were discovered there about three hundred clay tablets, covered with cuneiform inscriptions which have since been deciphered.