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  2. Shigandang - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Tablets of Stone - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Narmer Palette - Wikipedia

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    Serekhs bearing the rebus symbols n'r (catfish) and mr (chisel) inside, being the phonetic representation of Narmer's name [16]. The Narmer Palette is a 63-centimetre-tall (25 in) by 42-centimetre-wide (17 in), shield-shaped, ceremonial palette, carved from a single piece of flat, soft dark gray-green greywacke. [14]

  5. Oldest stone tablet inscribed with Bible’s Ten Commandments ...

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    The oldest known tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament sold on Wednesday for $5.04 million, more than double its high estimate. The stone, which dates back around 1,500 ...

  6. Galle Trilingual Inscription - Wikipedia

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    The Galle Trilingual Inscription is a stone tablet with an inscription in three languages, Chinese, Tamil and Persian, located in Galle, Sri Lanka.Dated 15 February 1409, it was installed by the Chinese admiral Zheng He in Galle during his grand voyages.

  7. Historic Ten Commandments Tablet to be Auctioned Off and ...

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    The tablet’s original location “was likely destroyed during either the Roman invasions of 400-600 CE or the later Crusades of the 11th century,” Sotheby’s said. The stone itself dates back ...

  8. Lithographic limestone - Wikipedia

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    The original source for lithographic limestone was the Solnhofen Limestone, named after the quarries of Solnhofen where it was first found. This is a late Jurassic deposit, part of a deposit of plattenkalk (a very fine-grained limestone that splits into thin plates, usually micrite) that extends through the Swabian Alb and Franconian Alb in Southern Germany. [5]

  9. Bat Creek Stone - Wikipedia

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    An 1890 lithograph of the tablet without the now present parallel markings A recent image of the tablet where the parallel markings are present in the top left corner. The stone itself is 11.4 centimeters (4.5 inches) long and 5.1 centimeters (2.0 inches) wide. The inscription consists of at least eight distinct characters.

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