Clay tablet
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In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age.
List of the victories of Rimush, king of Akkad, upon Abalgamash, king of Marhashi, and upon Emahsini, King of Elam, c. 2270 BCE.
Sumerian clay tablet, currently housed in the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, inscribed with the text of the poem Inanna and Ebih by the priestess Enheduanna, the first author whose name is known
The Babylonian Plimpton 322 clay tablet, with numbers written in cuneiform script. Believed to have been written c. 1800 BCE, this table lists two of the three numbers in what are now called Pythagorean triples.
Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir
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The complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir is a clay tablet that was sent to the ancient city-state Ur, written c. 1750 BC. The tablet, which measures 11.6 centimetres high and 5.0 centimetres wide, documents a
Clay tablet
…Code of Hammurabi Complaint tablet to Ea-nasir, the oldest known complaint letter Slate…
Tablet on display in the British Museum in 2023, showing the reverse side upside down
A transcription of the text on the obverse, reverse, and left edge of the tablet