In mesopotamiancuneiform texts (i.e. of the languages Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite mainly), names were preceeded by another (sumerian) word, a so-called determinative, indicating what the name was referring to (i.e. if it was the name of a plant, a tool, a king, a god, a town etc.) These determinatives were only written but not part of the spoken language. In transliterations, the determinatives are commonly superscript and written in capitals. This is an article about the ancient middle eastern region. ... Cuneiform (from the Latin word for wedge-shaped) can refer to: Mesopotamian clay tablet 492 BCE, Field Museum of Natural History,Chicago, Illinois. ... Sumer (or Shumer, Sumeria, Shinar, native ki-en-gir) formed the southern part of Mesopotamia from the time of settlement by the Sumerians until the time of Babylonia. ... Akkadian language city of Akkad or Agad Akkadian Empire Sargon of Akkad the Amarna letters and Amarna Letters EA 296(Yahtiru) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Hittite can refer to either: The ancient Anatolian people called the Hittites; or The Hittite language, an ancient Indo-European language they spoke. ... Transliteration in a narrow sense is a mapping from one system of writing into another. ... This article concerns places that serve as centers of government and politics. ...
Determinants are used to characterize invertible matrices (namely as those matrices, and only those matrices, with non-zero determinants), and to explicitly describe the solution to a system of linear equations with Cramer's rule.
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