Example sentences for: babylonian

How can you use “babylonian” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Babylonian Talmud recommends reciting baz bazia, mas masia, kas kasia, scharlai and amarlai.

  • The first known graphic system, cuneiform, served as the common vehicle of expression for not only Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Ugaritic, but also Elamite, Hurrian, Old Persian, and Hittite.

  • Shekel (Israel) was a Babylonian weight which became the coin of the Hebrews.

  • Two thousand years ago, the sages of the Babylonian Talmud addressed this question in a mysterious way--by offering a series of numerical examples with no hint of the general underlying principle.

  • After presenting various systems of communication (signs, pictographs, rebuses, shorthand, tallies, Babylonian clay tokens, Peruvian quipus), Robinson discusses such ancient and now defunct but decipherable writing systems as Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Minoan Greek Linear B, and Mayan glyphs; ditto some of the more outstanding conundra awaiting decipherment--Cretan Linear A, Proto-Elamite, Etruscan, and the Easter Island and Indus scripts.


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