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Перевод: cuneiform

[прилагательное]
клинообразный;
[существительное]
клинообразный знак; клинопись

Тезаурус:

1. Just north of Beirut, at the Nahr al-Kelb, the Dog River, where a doubtful trickle of brown water creeps through a narrow ravine next to a disused railway bridge, inscriptions, steles, cuneiform reliefs and plaques commemorating 25 centuries of armies are carved onto the walls of the gorge.
2. The artist is Bernard Quentin, master of every form of calligraphy and written code: from the cuneiform alphabet to hieroglyphs, from ancient graffiti to Chinese ideograms.
3. To prevent them rolling off into the water, the eggs are cuneiform, or wedge-shaped: narrow at one end and broad at the other.
4. For example, the tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets found at Kanesh (modern Kltepe in Turkey) are largely monetary accounts (lists of goods transported and letters regarding merchandise).
5. Assyrian cuneiform texts have also been found which give interpretations of dream-topics, many of which, again, are taboo behaviours - eating the flesh of one's penis, killing brothers or sons, eating faeces.
6. Some of the signs resemble symbols from a Mesopotamian script pre-dating cuneiform, which suggests that the script was imported from the east.
7. There is evidence that the Babylonians were using sine tables, recorded in cuneiform symbols on clay tablets, long before Hipparchus.
8. Those who created nuclear physics were as innocent of ulterior motivation as those who distilled a knowledge of the administration and society of ancient Egypt and Assyria from cuneiform inscriptions or Greek papyri.
9. As Webster goes on to point out, when study of the cuneiform records revealed that the Babylonian shabbatum (full-moon day) also fell on the fourteenth (or fifteenth) day of the month, we were presented with another survival of what must have been the primary meaning of the Hebrew term shabbath .
10. For example, we now know that the gold coins of Persia called "darics" existed by 500 BC, because a cuneiform document from Persepolis which is dated to the twenty-second year of Darius - i.e., 500 BC - was stamped with the imprint of one such coin.
11. To what degree, however, such a view of time was developed in Mesopotamian thought is not revealed by the cuneiform records, although according to Seneca the late Babylonian astronomer-priest Berossus (c.300 BC) believed in the periodic destruction and re-creation of the universe.
12. He did not yet know, as we know now thanks to the cuneiform tablet B.M. 35603, that Antiochus IV had died in Persia a few days or weeks before the probable date of the reconsecration of the Temple (A. I. Sachs and D. J. Wiseman, Iraq 16 (1954), 212).
13. According to official Iraqi sources, the stolen items include terracotta figurines, earthenware vessels and jars, statues, flat and cylinder seals as well as metal articles with Arabic writing, gold and silver Islamic coins, and a number of clay tablets with cuneiform inscriptions dating from various periods in history.