Definition: Battle Standard, Cuneiform

January 6, 2020January 10, 2020Digital Citizen Leave a comment

These were learned from my world art history self-learning on Khan Academy.

008 #Cuneiform – was one of the earliest systems of writing, invented by #Sumerians in ancient #Mesopotamia. Fascinating system! https://t.co/jE62ihozdf

— Digital Citizen (@digitalcitizen) January 6, 2020

With cuneiform, as ancient a language as it is, there isn’t a sound that a human mouth can make that this script can’t record!

011 battle standard – a variant of a national flag for use by a country's military forces when on land (aka war flag or battle flag), from The Standard of Ur https://t.co/aKzRDpJbcP

— Digital Citizen (@digitalcitizen) January 7, 2020

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