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Cuneiform tablet: student exercise tablet, Old Babylonian, ca. 20th–16th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Babylonian, Clay, 7.6 x 2.9 cm (3 x 1 1/8 in.), Clay-Tablets-Inscribed, This lenticular clay tablet was used to help scribes learn to write the Sumerian and Akkadian languages using the triangle-like cuneiform (literally, 'wedge-shaped') script. To learn a word or sign, the teacher would write the form on the obverse, and the student would then repeat the exercise on the reverse.

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Cuneiform tablet: student exercise tablet, Old Babylonian, ca. 20th–16th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Babylonian, Clay, 7.6 x 2.9 cm (3 x 1 1/8 in.), Clay-Tablets-Inscribed, This lenticular clay tablet was used to help scribes learn to write the Sumerian and Akkadian languages using the triangle-like cuneiform (literally, 'wedge-shaped') script. To learn a word or sign, the teacher would write the form on the obverse, and the student would then repeat the exercise on the reverse

Personalities:

BABYLON • SUMERIAN

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Album / quintlox

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4223 x 4585 px | 55.4 MB

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35.8 x 38.8 cm | 14.1 x 15.3 in (300 dpi)

Keywords:

20TH–16TH CENTURY B. C • 3 1 1/8 • 7.6 X 2.9 CM • AKKADIAN LANGUAGES • ANT. OR.: MESOPOTAMIA • ANTIQUITIES ORIENTAL: MESOPOTAMIA • BABYLON • BACK (VIEW) • CLAY • CLAY-TABLETS-INSCRIBED • CUNEIFORM TABLET • CUNEIFORM • EXERCISE • FORM • HELP SCRIBES • LEARN • LENTICULAR • LITERALLY • MESOPOTAMIA • MESOPOTAMIAN • OBVERSE • OLD BABYLONIAN • PILL • PILLS • REPEAT • REVERSE • SCRIPT • SIGN • STUDENT EXERCISE • STUDENT • SUMERIAN • TABLET • TABLETS • TEACHER • TRIANGLE • USING • WEDGE-SHAPED • WORD • WRITE • ÇA