wedge-shaped sign

The wall is pierced at the top by a wedge-shaped sign, illuminated with the Reuters name.

Resting against the walls were clay tablets of cuneiform writing, wedge-shaped signs that represented words or syllables.

A farm of satellite dishes will be planted on the building's roof, its satellite transmissions symbolized by an antenna atop the wedge-shaped sign.

Dating from 2600 B.C. to the first century A.D., the writings are in cuneiform, the wedge-shaped signs representing languages used by the Sumerians, Assyrians and others.

He is busy writing something for a tall man and you watch as the scribe quickly uses a sharpened reed to make little wedge-shaped signs in a small cushion of clay he holds in his hand.