Clay tablet
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clay-tablet-167-9663207
title:
Clay tablet
text:
In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed. Once written upon, many tablets were dried in the sun or air, remaining fragile. Later, these unfired clay tablets could be soaked in water and recycled into new clean tablets. Other tablets, once written, were either deliberately fired in hot kiln
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description:
Writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_tablet
date created:
2003-08-28T14:43:49Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T08:05:11Z
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