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Clay Tablet with Cuneiform Inscriptions (4703976097)
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The world it comes from
Persian rule, the long twilight of cuneiform.
Scholarly note
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Achaemenid period (ca. 550 - 330 BCE). I'd heard about and no doubt seen cuneiform tablets, but it wasn't until I visited the museum at Persepolis that I realized the medium (a clay tablet) and the fo
Attribution
Image: A.Davey from Portland, Oregon, EE UU — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Clay Tablet with Cuneiform Inscriptions (4703976097).jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AClay_Tablet_with_Cuneiform_Inscriptions_(4703976097).jpg. Description: Achaemenid period (ca. 550 - 330 BCE). I'd heard about and no doubt seen cuneiform tablets, but it wasn't until I visited the museum at Persepolis that I realized the medium (a clay tablet) and the form of writing are utterly alien to the v.
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