Clay tablet

LATE URUK PERIOD, CIRCA 3100-3000 B.C.

The Tablet Collection of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World is an independent unit of our museum under the curatorship of a faculty member in Cuneiform Studies. This position is currently held by Susanne Paulus, Associate Professor of Assyriology.

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The object lays claim to be the earliest known record of any personal name in history - indicated by a horizontal rectangle on the upper left-hand corner.

British Museum, London 2005. www.britishmuseum.org/ - Wikipedia - British Museum If you look near the bottom, you can see where the tablet has been edited by having a section of cunieform chiseled out (the small rectangle second from left and second from bottom) From Wikipedia: "Cuneiform script is one of the earliest known forms of written expression. Emerging in Sumer around the 30th century BC, with predecessors reaching into the late 4th millennium (the Uruk IV period), cuneiform writing…

CLAY TABLET: The main writing material used by the scribes of early civilizations. Signs were impressed or inscribed on the soft clay, which was then dried in the sun. The ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hittites wrote on tablets made from water-cleaned clay. A common form was a thin quadrilateral tile about 12.5 cm (5 inches) long which, while still wet, was inscribed by a stylus with cuneiform characters. By writing on the surface in small characters, a scribe could copy a…

This clay tablet records the restoration of the temple of the sun god Shamash at Larsa (modern-day Sankarah or Tell as-Senkereh) by King Hammurabi. Old Babylonian Period, reign of Hammurabi, 1792-1750...

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How to make clay tablet "flashcards" to aid in learning Sumerian cuneiform signs.