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Cuneiform Records is an independent record label based in Silver Spring, Maryland. An independent record label is variously described as a record label operating without the funding (or outside the organizations) of the major record labels, and/or a label that subscribes to indie philosophies such as DIY and anti-corporate art. ... Silver Spring is an urbanized, unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, USA. After Baltimore and Columbia, Silver Spring is the third most populous Census Designated Place in Maryland. ...

The label releases a mixture of musical styles, including progressive jazz, modern fusion music, progressive rock, the Canterbury Scene (and related artists) and electronic music. Artists on Cuneiform include Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Ahleuchatistas, Univers Zéro, Alec K. Redfearn & the Eyesores, Curlew, Thinking Plague, The Claudia Quintet, R. Stevie Moore, Upsilon Acrux and Forever Einstein. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... A fusion genre is a music genre which combines two or more other genres. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... The Canterbury Scene (or Canterbury Sound) is a term used to loosely describe the group of progressive rock musicians that were based around the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... It has been suggested that Electronica be merged into this article or section. ... Birdsongs of the Mesozoic is a musical group founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1983. ... Univers ZÃ©ro are an instrumental Belgian band known for playing dark music heavily influenced by 20th century chamber music. ... Alec K Redfearn is a musician and composer based out of Providence, Rhode Island. ... Curlew is an experimental free jazz group founded by saxophone player George Cartwright in 1979. ... Thinking Plague is a United States avant-garde rock group founded in 1982 by guitarist/composer, Mike Johnson, and bass guitarist/drummer, Bob Drake. ... The Claudia Quintet is an eclectic post-jazz[1] ensemble formed by drummer and composer John Hollenbeck. ... Robert Steven Moore (born January 18, 1952) is, primarily, an American singer/songwriter. ...

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cuneiform: Definition and Much More From Answers.com (1995 words)
	Cuneiforms were written on clay tablets, on which symbols were drawn with a blunt reed called a stylus.
	Cuneiform tablets could be fired in kilns to provide a permanent record, or they could be recycled if permanence was not needed.
	Invented by the Babylonians to record the Sumerian language, cuneiform was subsequently adopted by the Akkadians, Elamites, Hittites and Assyrians to write their own languages and was widely used in Mesopotamia for about 3000 years, though the syllabic nature of the script as it was refined by the Sumerians was unintuitive to the Semitic speakers.

Cuneiform Texts - SMM 12 (364 words)
	This tablet records numerous oxen, cows, sheep, and goats which were received from various sources and allocated for various uses by the livestock bureau at Puzrish-Dagan.
	The second, smaller batch of animals recorded in this text is identified as part of the spoils of war taken from the land of Harshi, north of Mesopotamia in the area of the Zagros Mountains.
	The tablet also records five lambs and one goat, each of which was individually allocated to a particular deity and identified as the "deliver of" one or another high-ranking official.

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