Cuneiform
Cuneiform script
ancient sumerian clay tablets were made of mud, water. the writing was made up of wedge shaped symbols. also, only scribes knew how to make the clay tablets and how to write on them.
Clay tablets were made out of clay that was easily found by the rivers of Tigris and Euphrates.
You should wedge clay before you work with it, to redistribte the minerals it is made of and remove air bubbles.
Some people use them to make art. They wanna use the same technique that the Native Americans did with clay tablets. IT's fun, you should try it.
Cuneiform was written on clay tablets with a stylus which was usually a reed, flattened on one end to make the impression in the clay. The impressions were wedge-shaped. Cuneiform means "wedge-shaped".
They used sharpened sticks to write and they wrote on clay tablets.
It was first used to make wedge-shaped symbols on clay tablets.
It was first used to make wedge-shaped symbols on clay tablets.
Scribes used a reed pen to draw pictures on clay tablets. The pointed end of the reed pen would create wedge-shaped marks, known as cuneiform, on the clay surface.
Cuneiform is the system of writing comprised of wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets. It was used by ancient civilizations like the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians in the Near East.
The ancient Sumerian writing system is known as "cuneiform" from the Latin cuneus ("wedge "), because the symbols are wedge-shaped, and marked into clay tablets with a stylus. The characters of cuneiform writing were originally pictorial, but because of the method of writing, they evolved into collections of wedge-shaped marks with little visual indication to their origins.
Cuneiform was one of the earliest forms of writing, consisting of wedge-shaped characters pressed into clay tablets by ancient civilizations like the Sumerians.
Cuneiform was a system of writing used by ancient civilizations like the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians. It consisted of combinations of wedge-shaped symbols impressed onto clay tablets using a stylus. Each symbol represented a word or sound.
In Mesopotamia, they were written in cuneiform on clay tables
Sumerians used reeds to write on clay tablets when they created cuneiform script. The reeds were shaped into a triangular point, which they pressed into wet clay to form the wedge-shaped characters of cuneiform.
Cuneiform, the Mesopotamian form of writing and therefore the oldest form of writing, means "wedge-shaped." This is because it was written using a tool with a wedge-shaped tip rather than the normal pointy one. This type of tip left cleaner marks on clay when Mesopotamians wrote on their clay slates.