clay tablet

collocation in English

meaningsofclayandtablet

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clay
noun[U]
uk
/kleɪ/us
/kleɪ/
thick, heavy soil that is soft when wet, and hard when dry or baked, used for making bricks ...
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tablet
noun[C]
uk
/ˈtæb.lət/us
/ˈtæb.lət/
a small, solid piece ...
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(Definition ofclayandtabletfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Dressed in a short tunic, if the king's right arm cradles a lion cub, his left hand holds aclaytablet.
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The letter shows a high-gloss surface on theclaytablet, and being a short letter, has only 5 to 8/9 cuneiform characters per line.
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It was discovered in five differentclaytabletmanuscripts written in the cuneiform script.
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It was a part of a thickclaytabletwith only three lines of writing.
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Remedies and recipes that would have been unknown were then possible because of theclaytablet.
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In order to protect against forgery, parties to a legal contract would impress their fingerprints into aclaytableton which the contract had been written.
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Other everyday items held by the museum include hand tools, scrapers, pottery, arrowheads, tear bottles, cups (including a kylix), perfume bottles, coins, andclaytabletwritings.
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Theclaytabletis no.
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The text of the letter does not end at the right margin of the letter; instead the text appears to use the side of theclaytablet.
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Seven triangular sections on the external circle (water perimeter), represent named islands, but the damagedclaytablethas lost the three islands on the tablet's lower edge.
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I think we can gather from that, that even in those early days there must have been some legislation to persuade those moneylenders to put their dealings on clay tablets.
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Important and private clay tablets were coated with an extra layer of clay, that no one else would read it.
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Finding aids are a concept dating back to ancient clay tablets.
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Sisycles would write the approved names on clay tablets.
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At this stage it was destroyed by a fire which baked the clay tablets and mudbrick walls, which then survived for millennia.
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He documents the transitions from clay tablets, to papyrus and parchment scrolls, and the development of the codex as the precursor of the modern book.
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Cuneiform texts were written on clay tablets, on which symbols were drawn with a blunt reed used as a stylus.
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Clay tablets with pictographic characters appeared in this period to record commercial transactions performed by the temples.
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A large mudbrick building was excavated in which a large collection of proto-cuneiform clay tablets was found.
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