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Wedges designed, not inherited.
Also known as: Achaemenid cuneiform, Persian wedge script
The simplified cuneiform script created for Old Persian under the Achaemenid kings.
Writes Old Persian in a small semi-alphabetic sign set.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Apparently designed rather than evolved, for monumental display, and used for little else — a script commissioned to make a state's inscriptions legible as its own.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Its trilingual inscriptions were the key to reading Mesopotamian cuneiform, so the simplest of the three scripts opened the hardest.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
About forty signs of a few wedge-shaped strokes each, far simpler in outline than Mesopotamian cuneiform, with a distinctive angled line dividing the words.