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an ancient tablet with cursive writing and symbols on the front, in stone

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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a piece of art that looks like it has been carved into the side of a wall

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…

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an ancient cuneform font on display in a museum

Description Ancient Cuneiform Text: TTF Font File The ancient text appears on a number of curious tablets, discovered by Stapleton McTavish the famous explorer and collector of ancient occult artifacts, each one depicting disturbing carvings. They are believed to have been the inspiration for the Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred's monstrous Necronomicon. Create your own blasphemous RPG handouts with this custom made TTF font file. Use in Word, Excel, or use Photoshop or GIMP etc.... to create that…

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an ancient object with writing on it

The earliest forms of Sumerian writing were pictographs ("picture words") where the sign resembles the object it represents (grain, hand, etc.), as seen on the tablet below: Pictographs, the precursor to cuneiform writing. On the early tablets, the signs were written vertically. The hand on the upper right means "to receive". The dots along the top are numbers.

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