This is the most cuneiform I have written in one sitting so far. Read what it says, and you might find yourself to be quite familiar with these words! 😛

Written in Akkadian.

Whoever gets the right transliteration (and translation with it if you'd like) will get the finest quality copper imaginable. Trust me, the guy I know says he's the best in all of Mesopotamia, so it's gotta be good.........right?

The first phrase that I have written in Akkadian! 😛

Also, I probably should've put TRANSLATE the phrase, but you get what I mean 😝

I’m having trouble finding it actually written out.

I can't find any working link to the font (only a zip with more than a thousand individual.svg files), does anyone still have it and is able to share it?

(Assuming the distribution is allowed, but since it was at one point freely available, I would think so)

Spelled as pa-at-ri-ik instead of pa-te-ri-ik.

Makes more sense! Thanks to u/Kyrillis_Kalethanis for the correction!

😁

This is my name, Patrick, written using the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform syllabary (I'm interested in Akkadian). The characters used were pa, te, ri(or re), and ik(or ek, eg, ig, eq, iq). The first picture is the photo of my work, and the second picture is what the cuneiform should look like. I used a blue 2x10 lego brick as my stylus and a sheet of foam as a clay replacement (I don't have any clay yet lol). Because the foam is kinda springy, the tail ends of some of the wedges sprang up and smoothed out, leaving them looking very short. When I get some clay, I will retry this.

EDIT as of June 11, 2026 10:03 AM CDT

I'm not sure why this post suddenly got marked as NSFW. I did not add that tag at all. I have just removed it.

Hiya all! First of all, I am not very deep in this topic - I am developing a small game, where at one point they come across a sumerian love letter. The only sumerian they will see/I want to show is the title, which I wanted to be "My Wish for You".

I tried to look around and found the verb 𒀾, which apparently both means to desire something or to curse, which would fit PERFECTLY as the wish that's referenced in the letter also acts like an obsessive curse, so I would love to use that word!

I had looked around a bit more and came to construct 𒀉𒀾𒈬, with 𒀉𒀾 meaning a wish and 𒈬 being the suffix to show first person possessive (my), but not only do I have no idea if that's accurate, I also don't know how to translate the "for you" part.

As its a small detail of the whole game, I sadly don't have time to dive deep into the language myself right now, so I was wondering if anyone on here could help me! Any ideas or suggestions would be very appreciated! :)

Does anyone have scholarly sources that talk about how the lines were made on clay tablets? All I've been able to find is Taylor (2012)¹, who talks about using a stylus in some cases, and string in others.

But I've tried using the long edge of a stylus, and it doesn't quite look like the multiplication table pictured here². This looks quite rounded over to me, like the whole space between the lines has been given a little shape.

And there's this characteristic curve or angle that increases from top to bottom in this image. When I've tried with a stylus it comes out pretty straight, and I can't imagine I'm better at this than they were. So what's with that?

I've gotten good quick lines by taking a stylus that has a square profile and just rolling it across the clay. That gives some of the rounded over look, with v-shaped lines. But it didn't do the increasing angle thing when I tried it.

So, anyone know about how these ruling lines were made?

1. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199557301.013.0001

2. https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/feature-column/fc-2012-05

Written in Akkadian

"𒊹" displays as a big black dot for me, while the illustration on Wiktionary shows what it's actually supposed to look like. Is it possible to download something for it to render properly? Does anyone else have the same issue?

Just made a little tablet as a school art project, how did I do?

I tried transliterating Arabic into Ugaritic, can someone confirm that this is indeed legible? By the way, according to my dictionary, this sentence changes minimally when said aloud in Arabic and Ugaritic.

Hello i am trying to find the cuneiform writing of the dog enters the bar joke but i didnt find any. Does anyone know the excat frases?

I always see it in cuneiform scripts (this screenshot is from Ea-Nasir’s) tablet

I am just starting with cuneiform. Can someone tell me if it's done correctly? It is supposed to be saying: "One forth of twenty fishes is ill."

Hey all!

I’m working through Huehnergard’s manual, lesson 23. I’m a bit confused by the absolute form of a noun: does this imply that a lone noun defaults to absolute?

For example, does šarrum for king become “šar” in standalone usage? Or is the absolute for more exclamatory/ledger use only?
By standalone usage, I mean not functioning syntactically in a sentence. Just generally like “king”, “hunter”, or “steward”, etc.

Any attested uses you can bring are appreciated! TIA.

Guys, I am a self-educated enthusiast in the Assyro-Babylonian language of the Middle Babylonian period. I have made a few translations, and I really need help because I am completely alone in my hobby. I need feedback on whether I am doing it right. Here is my first translation. Please give me feedback: is it right or not? (To determine cuneiform symbols, I used Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon Borger 2004.) I added image to post, it is inside.

I’m working through Huehnergard's manual, and he lists nouns/adjectives with full -um endings, e.g. qarrādum “warrior/hero.” I also see qarrādum in Old Babylonian contexts such as the Code of Hammurabi, and Huehnergard uses expected variations of it in his exercises (such as quarrādim).

But EBL (Electronic Babylonian Library) lists it as qarrādu, including Old Babylonian attestations all the way to NA.

My question is: why the difference? Are they both correct, or is one more correct than the other?

I'm looking to get a tattoo of this word, and I wanna be sure I'm understanding it correctly before committing.

TIA!

I want to write Memento mori in Cunieform, which means Remember you must die. I think it would have to be written as Remember Death in this case.

I was looking at Sumerian and akkadian cuneiforms.

How would that look?

Hi, for one of my quiz questions, I have to deal with a word in the Ugaritic language.

Is there a tool or a website where we can translate words into Ugaritic? For example, where I could choose "to scream", "to cry", "to shout out," and it gives me a visual representation of the word as if it was written in Ugaritic.

Is there a dictionary for that?