likhusi

Updated: May 25, 2025

Deutsch tells us that, originally, the cuneiform signs were pictures of objects drawn in outline on a vegetable substance, known by the native name of likhusi. He thinks it probable that the supply of this was not equal to the demand, for early in the Babylonish history clay was used instead of likhusi. "My dear Nicholson,

Giberne Sieveking - Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman