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frameshift | 08:03 Sat 25th Feb 2012 | Crosswords
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Can anyone explain 2d? Language displaying the thin end of the wedge (7) Reported earlier as HITTITE. I thought it ws HETHINE (hidden in clue) but apparantly not. Thanks.
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Possibly because Hittite was written in cuneiform script and cuneiform means 'wedge shaped' ?

http://encyclopedia.t...com/Hittite+cuneiform
http://www.utexas.edu...r/ie-texts/notes.html

"Hittite and other, generally older texts were written using cuneiform script, which was formed by pressing a WEDGE-shaped stylus into moist clay".

(it's not an answer that would have occurred to me unless resorting to finding a word to fit the letters)
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Thanks for that, something else I've learned today.

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