wedge-writing

English

Alternative forms

• wedge writing, wedge-writ

Etymology

From wedge +‎ writing.

Noun

wedge-writing (plural wedge-writings)

1. Writing predominantly featuring the use of wedge-shaped characters; cuneiform
   • 1885, Johns Hopkins University Circulars - Volumes 4-8:

     The script in which the Assyrian texts are written is called cuneiform or wedge-writing because of its constituent elements: the horizontal, vertical and oblique wedge.

   • 1889, Friedrich Delitzsch, Assyrian Grammar:

     The Assyro-Babylonian wedge-writing was originally a straight-line picture-writing.

   • 1996, Peter T. Daniels, William Bright, The World's Writing Systems:

     Argillographic records are those written on clay, the medium of choice for wedge writing; nearly all Akkadian (cuneiform) records are preserved on clay; many of the wedge-abjad records of Ugaritic are also preserved on clay.

   • 2013, Thomas H. Perdue, Mashiah Versus Anti-Mashiah:

     Our concern is that it came on the scene after the confusion of tongues and lasted a very short time, then Cuneiform or wedge-writing came into use.

   • 2014, Nils Anfinset, Melanie Wrigglesworth, Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe:

     The term “evil eye” is known from Sumerian wedge writings from the third millennium bce.