Hieroglyphs vs Cuneiform - What's the difference?
hieroglyphs | cuneiform |
Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.
* 1936 , W. Frank Calderon, Animal Painting and Anatomy , page 297
* 1952 , Aileen Fox, Roman Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum): Excavations in the War-damaged Areas, 1945-1947 , page 69
Written in the writing system.
* 1911 , Alvin Sylvester Zerbe, The Antiquity of Hebrew Writing and Literature , page 182
* 2000 , Jöran Friberg, A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts , page ix
An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clay tablets.
(anatomy) A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
As nouns the difference between hieroglyphs and cuneiform
is that hieroglyphs is plural of hieroglyph while cuneiform is an ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clay tablets.As an adjective cuneiform is
having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.cuneiform
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(wikipedia cuneiform)Alternative forms
* cuniformAdjective
(-)- The cuneiform tendon is always sharply defined when the hock is flexed by the action of the muscle.
- The cuneiform leaf is not the characteristic heart-shaped early form (O. and P. , p. 241).
- There, too, it was originally the vulgar script in contrast with the official cuneiform script employed for all official documents, compacts, etc.
- The text is inscribed on a clay tablet of a very unusual format. The only other known mathematical cuneiform' text on a clay tablet of a similar format is also the only previously known Kassite (and therefore post-Old-Babylonian) mathematical ' cuneiform text.