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Description: | In the Ancient Near East clay tablets were often used to write on. This Babylonian clay tablet has a cuneiform inscription on it. Cuneiform is the name for the pictorial writing which was used in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) between the 3rd and 1st millennia BC. The script was made by making impressions in a piece of wet clay with a split reed stalk. This gives the writing its angular appearance. The tablet was then dried. If dried properly clay tablets became almost indestructible which is why this example has survived today. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | archaeology egyptian | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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