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English: Stone tablet, the cuneiform inscription is about a land purchase by a man named Tupsikka. From Dilbat, Iraq. 2400-2200 BCE. British Museum, London. The payment was made in of baskets of barley.
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According to the Talmud, each tablet was square, six tefachim (approximately 50 centimeters, or 20 inches) wide and high, and more a thicker block than a tablet, at three tefachim (25 centimeters, 10 inches) thick, [8] [9] though they tend to be shown larger in art. (Other Rabbinic sources say they were rectangular rather than square, six ...
The Gezer calendar is a small limestone tablet with an early Canaanite inscription discovered in 1908 by Irish archaeologist R. A. Stewart Macalister in the ancient city of Gezer, 20 miles west of Jerusalem. It is commonly dated to the 10th century BCE, although the excavation was not stratified. [1] [2]
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Wax tablet and a Roman stylus. A wax tablet is a tablet made of wood and covered with a layer of wax, often linked loosely to a cover tablet, as a "double-leaved" diptych.It was used as a reusable and portable writing surface in antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages.
Shigandang: tablet, erected at the entrance of a lane, etc., to drive away misfortune or evil spirits. An Ishigantō in Okinawa , Japan Shigandang ( simplified Chinese : 石敢当 ; traditional Chinese : 石敢當 ; pinyin : shí gǎn dāng ; Wade–Giles : shih-kan-tang ; Japanese: 石敢當 , romanized: ishigantō ) is an ornamental stone ...
A stele (/ ˈ s t iː l i / STEE-lee), from Greek στήλη, stēlē, plural στήλαι stēlai, [Note 1] is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument. The surface of the stele often has text, ornamentation, or both.