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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, [10] [11] though they tend to be shown larger in art. (Other Rabbinic sources say they were rectangular rather than square, six ...
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.
A spirit tablet is often used for deities or ancestors (either generally or specifically: e.g. for a specific relative or for one's entire family tree). Shrines are generally found in and around households (for household gods and ancestors), in temples for specific deities, or in ancestral shrines for the clan's founders and specific ancestors.
Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era city located in present-day Turkey.
A detail of the Gabriel Revelation Stone on display in the Israel Museum (fair use full view).. Gabriel's Revelation, also called Hazon Gabriel (the Vision of Gabriel) [1] or the Jeselsohn Stone, [2] is a stone tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew text written in ink, containing a collection of short prophecies written in the first person.
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 ...
Kuthodaw pagoda, view from the middle enclosure (south) One of the stone inscriptions, originally in gold letters and borders, at Kuthodaw The pagoda itself was built as part of the traditional foundations of the new royal city which also included a pitakat taik or library for religious scriptures, but King Mindon wanted to leave a great work of merit for posterity meant to last five millennia ...