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alphabet Mi (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform writing Mi (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana み and ミ Māori language, ISO 639-1 code:mi Military intelligence
MI
Cuneiform sign
related to Mi (cuneiform). The cuneiform mi, (also mé) sign is a distinctive sign in the wedge-stroke group, and is used as a syllabic for mi, me, and an
Mi_(cuneiform)
Cuneiform sign
Me (cuneiform). The cuneiform me sign (𒈨) is a common multi-use sign of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the 1350 BC Amarna letters, and other cuneiform texts
Me_(cuneiform)
Writing system of the ancient Near East
contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Cuneiform is a
Cuneiform
Ancient Mesopotamian script
article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. This
Hittite_cuneiform
Unicode character block
Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform script is covered in three blocks in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP): U+12000–U+123FF Cuneiform U+12400–U+1247F Cuneiform Numbers
Cuneiform_(Unicode_block)
The decipherment of cuneiform began with the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform between 1802 and 1836. The first cuneiform inscriptions published in
Decipherment_of_cuneiform
Ancient Indo-European language of the Hittite Empire
varieties of Luwian are known after the scripts in which they were written: Cuneiform Luwian (CLuwian) and Hieroglyphic Luwian (HLuwian). There is no consensus
Luwian_language
List of written symbols used in the ancient Near East
Cuneiform is one of the earliest systems of writing, emerging in Sumer in the late fourth millennium BC. Archaic versions of cuneiform writing, including
List_of_cuneiform_signs
Ziggurat in ancient Babylon
article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Etemenanki
Etemenanki
Ancient Anatolian people of Kussara
article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. The Hittites
Hittites
Script used to write the Elamite language
Elamite cuneiform was a logo-syllabic script used to write the Elamite language. The corpus of Elamite cuneiform consists of tablets and fragments. The
Elamite_cuneiform
Ancient Assyrian city
article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Nineveh
Nineveh
Cuneiform sign
Wikimedia Commons has media related to U (cuneiform). The cuneiform U sign is found in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh
U_(cuneiform)
Iranian island in Persian Gulf
century. There are also tombs, temples, and the Achaemenid inscription of cuneiform writing dating from between 550 and 330 BCE. It has been an important
Kharg_Island
Ancient city of Sumer and Babylonia
You may need rendering support to display the cuneiform script in this article correctly. Uruk, the archeological site known today as Warka, was an ancient
Uruk
Language of ancient Sumer and Babylon
obscurity until the 19th century, when Assyriologists began deciphering the cuneiform inscriptions and excavated tablets that had been left by its speakers
Sumerian_language
Ancient port city in western Syria and northern levant
Arabic as Ras Shamra or Tell Shamra. The site, with its corpus of ancient cuneiform texts, was discovered in 1928. The texts were written in a previously
Ugarit
Capital of the Hittite Empire
article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Hattusa
Hattusa
River in Turkey, Iraq, and Syria
name is ultimately derived from cuneiform 𒌓𒄒𒉣; read as Buranun in Sumerian and Purattu in Akkadian; many cuneiform signs have a Sumerian pronunciation
Euphrates
Cuneiform sign
times); rag, (2); rak, (10); raq, (1); sal, (1); šal, (25); MÍ, (43 times). Parpola, 1997, cuneiform no 554. Rainey, 1970 Parpola, Simo, with Mikko Luuko, and
MUNUS
Ancient Mesopotamian city-state
scholars about the importance of Ur during the Early Bronze Age. Proto-cuneiform tablets from the Early Dynastic period, c. 2900 BC, have been recovered
Ur
Ancient Mesopotamian civilization from 3300 to 1900 BC
of cuneiform writing is a lengthy poem that was discovered in the ruins of Uruk. The Epic of Gilgamesh was written in the standard Sumerian cuneiform. It
Sumer
Extinct Bronze Age Indo-European language
article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Hittite
Hittite_language
One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Dalley, Stephanie (1994). "Nineveh, Babylon and the Hanging Gardens: Cuneiform and Classical Sources Reconciled". Iraq. 56: 45–58. doi:10.2307/4200384
Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon
Ancient Mesopotamian city in Iraq
890 (3½ sq. mi.) to 900 ha (2,200 acres). The main sources of information about Babylon—excavation of the site itself, references in cuneiform texts found
Babylon
State in Mesopotamia (c. 2334–2154 BC)
has not yet been located, though there has been much speculation. Some cuneiform tablets have been excavated at cities under Akkadian Empire control such
Akkadian_Empire
Ancient Sumerian city
Kish (Sumerian: Kiš; transliteration: Kiški; cuneiform: 𒆧𒆠; Akkadian: Kiššatu, near modern Tell al-Uhaymir) is an important archaeological site in Babil
Kish_(Sumer)
Ancient city in northwest Asia Minor
article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Troy
Troy
Cuneiform sign
has media related to Ud (cuneiform). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cuneiform signs, Amarna letters. The cuneiform ud sign, also ut, and with
Ud_(cuneiform)
Epic poem from Mesopotamia
"Izdubar", before the cuneiform logographs in his name could be pronounced accurately. In 1891, Paul Haupt collected the cuneiform text, and nine years
Epic_of_Gilgamesh
Archaeological site in Iraq
texts (Cuneiform: 𒂍𒍪𒀊, E₂.ZU.AB; Sumerian: e₂-abzu; Akkadian: bītu apsû). In later texts the temple was called House of the Waters (Cuneiform: 𒂍𒇉
Eridu
Babylonian legal text
sun god and god of justice. Below the relief are about 4,130 lines of cuneiform text: one fifth contains a prologue and epilogue in poetic style, while
Code_of_Hammurabi
vertical stroke) Cuneiform-di--Sign No. 3--- Cuneiform-ki--Sign No. 4--- Cuneiform-mi-(Sign 5) Cuneiform-ši--Sign No. 6--- Cuneiform-ši, lim, or IGI ("in
Ù_(cuneiform)
Topics referred to by the same term
referring to the speaker Me, M.E. or ME may also refer to: Me (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform writing Me (kana), a letter in Japanese script Middle English
Me
Extinct branch of Indo-European languages
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Anatolian_languages
Ancient clay cylinder with Akkadian cuneiform script
pieces, on which is written an Achaemenid royal inscription in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of the Persian king Cyrus the Great. It dates from
Cyrus_Cylinder
Capital city of Syria
Neo-Assyrian cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Damascus
Damascus
Extinct Anatolic language
(URUka-la-aš-mi-li). The language was deciphered by Prof. Daniel Schwemer in the 71st volume of the edition Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazköi ("Cuneiform Texts
Kalašma_language
Iron-Age kingdom of the ancient Near East
of Georgia, and western regions of Azerbaijan. Its kings left behind cuneiform inscriptions in the Urartian language, a member of the Hurro-Urartian
Urartu
Country in West Asia
southeastern Iran. Inscriptions in the Proto-Elamite script, which predates cuneiform, have been found from the early third millennium BC. The western part
Iran
Sumerian concept
form: ĝi6-par4 (Sign: MI.NI.GIŠ, Cuneiform: 𒈪𒉌𒄑) Variant form: ĝi6-par3 (Signs: MI.DAG, Cuneiform: 𒈪𒁖) The first Sign, MI, was developed from the
Giparu
Historical region of West Asia
Mesopotamia's history, around the mid-4th millennium BC, cuneiform was invented for the Sumerian language. Cuneiform literally means "wedge-shaped", due to the triangular
Mesopotamia
Extinct Northwest Semitic language
notably the Baal cycle. The script is described as “a special alphabetic Cuneiform,” reflecting an idiom related to Canaanite and Hebrew languages. Like
Ugaritic
Ancient Mesopotamian city state
Lagash (/ˈleɪ.ɡæʃ/; cuneiform: 𒉢𒁓𒆷𒆠 LAGAŠKI; Sumerian: Lagaš) was an ancient city-state located northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris
Lagash
Historical reconstruction
the Middle East at the British Museum, Irving Finkel, made a study of a cuneiform tablet from 1750 BCE that contained a flood narrative similar to that
Finkel's replica of Babylonian ark
Finkel's_replica_of_Babylonian_ark
Locations where civilization emerged
emergence of the cuneiform script. Proto-writing in the region dates to around 3800 BC, with the earliest texts dating to 3300 BC; early cuneiform writing emerged
Cradle_of_civilization
Archaeological site in Iraq
site was first excavated in 1926 by Stephen Langdon, who found Proto-Cuneiform clay tablets in a large mudbrick building thought to be the ancient administrative
Jemdet_Nasr
Plant used as spice
second millennium BCE. It was noted as a dye plant in the Assyrians' cuneiform medical texts from Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh from 7th century
Turmeric
Geological feature in Asia
Mesopotamia and the Iranian plateau. The kingdoms of Aratta, known from cuneiform sources, may have been located in the central Iranian plateau. In classical
Iranian_plateau
Neolithic artefacts purported to contain writing
way related to Mesopotamian proto-writing, particularly Sumerian proto-cuneiform, which they argued was contemporary. In 1961, members of a team led by
Tărtăria_tablets
First planet from the Sun
in the solar system. Some sources precede the cuneiform transcription with "MUL". "MUL" is a cuneiform sign that was used in the Sumerian language to
Mercury_(planet)
Ancient city, capital of the Median Empire
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Ecbatana
Pharaoh of Egypt from 1279 to 1213 BC
regnal name: Usermaatre Setepenre. Contemporary documents, particularly cuneiform letters discovered at Hattusa indicate that the name Ramesses was pronounced
Ramesses_II
14th-century BCE Egyptian clay tablet
cuneiform is finely inscribed. The scribe has some distinct techniques: clarity of the cuneiform; because of a listing, use of non-common cuneiform;
Amarna_letter_EA_34
Ancient Semitic-speaking people from the Levant
Text from Drēhem Recording 'Booty from the Land of Mardu.'", Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 22, no. 3/4, pp. 53–62, 1968 Buccellati, G., "The Amorites
Amorites
Ancient Sumerian and Amorite city
Mari (Cuneiform: 𒈠𒌷𒆠, ma-riki, modern Tell Hariri; Arabic: تل حريري) was an ancient Semitic city-state in modern-day Syria. Its remains form a tell
Mari,_Syria
Ancient Hurrian-speaking state in northern Syria and southeast Anatolia
Nuzi texts, in Ugarit, and the Hittite archives in Hattusa (Boğazköy). Cuneiform texts from Mari mention rulers of city-states in upper Mesopotamia with
Mitanni
Oldest surviving law code, from Mesopotamia
it not been for an opportune letter from F. R. Kraus, now Professor of Cuneiform Studies at the University of Leiden in Holland ... His letter said that
Code_of_Ur-Nammu
Jinn-like being often associated with eating human flesh in Arabian folklore
fascinating or appealing. Arab traders have been attested in Mesopotamian cuneiform, and there is evidence of cultural exchange between Arabs and their neighbors
Ghoul
Human settlement in Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon
studies. Probably the most important finds were documents written in cuneiform script on clay tablets dated to the 14th century BC. The village of Kamed
Kamid_el-Loz
The names of over 3,000 Mesopotamian deities have been recovered from cuneiform texts. Many of these are from lengthy lists of deities compiled by ancient
List_of_Mesopotamian_deities
Ancient Syrian city
article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Ebla
Ebla
Ancient Mesopotamian empire (626–539 BC)
document written in accordance with the old scribal tradition in Akkadian cuneiform is from 35 BC and contains a prayer to Marduk. The latest known other
Neo-Babylonian_Empire
Former Assyrian capital, now archaeological site in Iraq
city's double city was also cleared. More than 16,000 clay tablets with cuneiform texts were discovered and are held at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Several
Assur
Ancient city in Iran
Anshan (Elamite cuneiform: 𒀭𒍝𒀭 Anzan; Sumerian: 𒀭𒊓𒀭𒆠 Ansanᴷᴵ, 𒀭𒊭𒀭𒆠 Anšanᴷᴵ) modern Tall-e Malyan (Persian: تل ملیان), also Tall-i Malyan, was
Anshan_(Persia)
Western Iranian language
Central Asia, and South Asia. Old Persian is attested in Old Persian cuneiform on inscriptions from between the 6th and 4th century BCE. Middle Persian
Persian_language
Historical period (c. 3300–1200 BCE)
According to archaeological evidence, cultures in Mesopotamia, which used cuneiform script, and Egypt, which used hieroglyphs, developed the earliest practical
Bronze_Age
Stele recovered from Sippa
dress codes and regulations. BBS 036a (P472680) - Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative BBS 036a (P472680) British
Tablet_of_Shamash
Extinct Semitic language used in the third millennium BC
with East and West Semitic features. The language was discovered through cuneiform tablets found in Ebla. The 1964 discovery at the Tell Mardikh site in
Eblaite_language
River system in the Middle East
their tributaries drain an area of 879,790 square kilometres (339,690 sq mi), including almost the entire area of Iraq as well as portions of Turkey,
Tigris–Euphrates_river_system
Extinct ancient language of Mesopotamia
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Hurrian_language
Species of hominid in the genus Homo
Mesopotamia. It was in these cities that the earliest known form of writing, cuneiform script, appeared around 3000 BCE. Other major civilizations to develop
Human
Collection of music dating from approximately 1400 BCE
Hurrian songs (or Hurrian Hymns) are a collection of music written in cuneiform on clay tablets excavated from the ancient city of Ugarit, a headland
Hurrian_songs
Ancient Sumerian city in modern-day Iraq
was occupied at least as far back as the Uruk period. A number of proto-cuneiform came from there. While most early textual sources are from Early Dynastic
Umma
Sumerian city
Girsu (Sumerian Ĝirsu. cuneiform ĝir2-suki 𒄈𒋢𒆠) was a city of ancient Sumer, situated some 25 km (16 mi) northwest of Lagash, at the site of what is
Girsu
River in Turkey, Iraq, and Syria
(1,090 mi) long, rising in the Taurus Mountains of eastern Turkey about 25 km (16 mi) southeast of the city of Elazığ and about 30 km (19 mi) south of
Tigris
Assyrian history (911–609 BCE)
article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. The Neo-Assyrian
Neo-Assyrian_Empire
Department of the Middle East in the British Museum, where he specialises in cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia. Sir Raymond
List of atheists in science and technology
List_of_atheists_in_science_and_technology
Periodic comet
9 March, respectively. They went as close as 8,890 km (5,520 mi), and 8,030 km (4,990 mi), providing data on Halley's dimensions, shape, temperature,
Halley's_Comet
Language of the ancient Urartu, now the Eastern Anatolia region
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Urartian_language
River in Lebanon
research and preservation. In November 2023, digital documentation of the cuneiform inscriptions was carried out to support their preservation and study.
Nahr_al-Kalb
Small domesticated bird
dove is among the world's first birds to be domesticated; Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets mention the domestication of pigeons more than 5,000 years ago
Domestic_pigeon
Egyptian archive of correspondence on clay tablets
because they are written not in the language of ancient Egypt, but in cuneiform, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia. Most are in a variety of Akkadian
Amarna_letters
Country in West Asia
local institutions, while temple authorities, scholarly traditions, and cuneiform writing continued to function during the Seleucid period. Archaeological
Iraq
Archaic conception of Earth's shape
complex structure composed of vertical layers. For instance, KAR 307, a cuneiform text, depicts three layered earths. The "Upper Earth" is the land inhabited
Flat_Earth
Capital and largest city of Armenia
when comparing inscriptions found on two cuneiform tablets at Erebuni: The transcription of the second cuneiform bu [original emphasis] of the word was
Yerevan
Ancient Iranian empire, 550–330 BC
they are mostly in Elamite; the remains of more than 10,000 of these cuneiform documents have been uncovered. Aramaic is represented by about 1,000 or
Achaemenid_Empire
Series of ancient Mesopotamian glossaries
The cuneiform lexical lists are a series of ancient Mesopotamian glossaries which preserve the semantics of Sumerograms, their phonetic value and their
Lexical_lists
Ancient Elamite complex in Khuzestan Province, Iran
The ziggurat was given a facing of baked bricks, a number of which have cuneiform characters giving the names of deities in the Elamite and Akkadian languages
Chogha_Zanbil
City in Aleppo Governorate, Syria
millennium BC. That is also the time at which Aleppo is first mentioned in cuneiform tablets unearthed in Ebla and Mesopotamia, which speak of it as part of
Aleppo
Second planet from the Sun
brightest visible "star". Earlier spellings of the name were written with the cuneiform sign si4 (= SU, meaning "to be red"), and the original meaning may have
Venus
Sexual relations between humans and donkeys
(1967). ŠÀ.ZI.GA: Ancient Mesopotamian Potency Incantations. Texts from Cuneiform Sources, Vol. 2. Locust Valley, NY: J.J. Augustin. p. 32. Frangoulidis
Bestiality_with_a_donkey
Largest Greek island
Corsica. Crete is located approximately 100 km (62 mi) south of the Peloponnese, and about 300 km (190 mi) southwest of Anatolia. Crete has an area of 8,450 km2
Crete
Archaeological culture of Mesopotamia
In the early 1900s, clay tablets with an archaic form of the Sumerian cuneiform script began to appear in the antiquities market. A collection of 36 tablets
Jemdet_Nasr_period
Small Semitic nation of ancient Mesopotamia
southern Mesopotamia. It is mentioned, with varying meaning, in Neo-Assyrian cuneiform, the Hebrew Bible, and in classical Greek texts. The Hebrew Bible uses
Chaldea
Country in West Asia
Herron, Donald M. (1990). Jean-Jacques Glassner (ed.). The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer. JHU Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-8018-7389-8. Nyrop, Richard
Kuwait
Bronze Age civilisation in South Asia
the entire Middle Asia, complemented by information from Mesopotamian cuneiform texts, shows that entrepreneurs from the Indus Valley regularly ventured
Indus_Valley_Civilisation
Ancient Amorite-Akkadian state in Mesopotamia
Babylonian observations of celestial phenomena are recorded in the series of cuneiform script tablets known as the 'Enūma Anu Enlil'. The oldest significant
Babylonia
City walls of ancient Babylon
thought to have been first built in the early second millennium BC, with cuneiform tablets mentioning members of the Hammurabi dynasty, including his son
Walls_of_Babylon
MI CUNEIFORM
MI CUNEIFORM
Male
Egyptian
, Loved of Pthah.
Male
Iranian/Persian
Avestan myth name of the son of Ahura Mazda, derived from the proto-Indo-Iranian word *mitra, MITHRA means "contract, covenant, oath, promise, treaty," from the root mi- "to bind," all of which seems to indicate the basic meaning "alliance; contract; a means of binding."
Surname or Lastname
English (Somerset)
English (Somerset) : unexplained.James Fackrell (1787–1867) came to NY and VT from North Petherton, Somerset, England, in or before 1812, and subsequently moved to MI and thence to East Bountiful, UT.
Male
Egyptian
, the name of two sons of Rameses II.
Male
Egyptian
, a surname of Rameses III.
Male
French
Variant spelling of French Rémy, RÉMI means "oarsman."
Girl/Female
Danish, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu
Good; Self Confidant; Pure as Milk
Male
Egyptian
, a son of Rameses II.
Male
Egyptian
, a son of Rameses II.
Male
Egyptian
, a surname of Rameses IV.
Female
Egyptian
, the daughter of Hor-mi-nuter.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for a stonemason, Middle English, Old French mas(s)on. Compare Machen. Stonemasonry was a hugely important craft in the Middle Ages.Italian (Veneto) : from a short form of Masone.French : from a regional variant of maison ‘house’.George Mason (1725–92), the American colonial statesman who framed the VA Bill of Rights and Constitution, which was used as a model by Thomas Jefferson when drafting the Declaration of Independence, was a VA planter, fourth in descent from George Mason (?1629–?86), a royalist soldier of the English Civil War who had received land grants in VA. As well as being prominent in the affairs of VA, the family also produced the first governor of MI.
MI CUNEIFORM
MI CUNEIFORM
Boy/Male
Indian, Telugu
Handsome; Precious; Graceful
Girl/Female
Arabic, French, Indonesian, Islamic, Muslim, Pakistani, Urdu
Gold; Brave; Strong; Courageous
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Lord of the Team
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Sanskrit
Bringing Light
Boy/Male
Arabic
Form of Jamal
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Lyford.
Boy/Male
Indian
Character of a person, Heart, Mind, Conscience
Male
Irish
Irish name UAITHNE means "green."
Boy/Male
Tamil
Shriyansh | à®·à¯à®°à¯€à®¯à®¾à®‚à®·
Fame giver and Lucky, Wealthy
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Strength; Power
MI CUNEIFORM
MI CUNEIFORM
MI CUNEIFORM
MI CUNEIFORM
MI CUNEIFORM
n.
A cuneiform, or arrow-headed, character.
n.
One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus, which articulates with the ulna and corresponds to the cuneiform in man.
n.
One of the carpal bones. See Cuneiform, n., 2 (b).
n.
A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi/ing the clay in potteries; a plunger.
n.
A syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of C, i. e., to E, in European solmization, but to the third tone of any scale in the American system.
v. i.
To sing the notes of the gamut, ascending or descending; as, do or ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or the same in reverse order.
pl.
of Centesimo
n.
One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.
a.
Cuneiform.
n.
The system of arranging the scale by the names do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, by which singing is taught; a singing exercise upon these syllables.
n.
One of the bones of the carpus; the cuneiform. See Cuneiform (b).
a.
Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
n.
One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.
n.
Alt. of Cuniform
n.
One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.
a.
Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.
n.
The art of writing in cuneiform characters, or of deciphering inscriptions made in such characters.
a.
Alt. of Cuniform
a.
Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded.
a.
Shaped like the head of an arrow; cuneiform.