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.
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