cuneiform tablet

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cuneiform
adjective
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/ˈkjuː.nɪ.fɔːm/us
/ˈkjuː.nə.fɔːrm/
of a form of writing used for over 3,000 years until the 1st century BC in the ancient countries of ...
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tablet
noun[C]
uk
/ˈtæb.lət/us
/ˈtæb.lət/
a small, solid piece ...
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He found a few inscribed bricks, and a singlecuneiformtablet.
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Aside from some inscribed pottery of various periods, the significant epigraphic find was a singlecuneiformtablet.
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A large number of cuneiform tablets were found in the palace.
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It incorporates more than 2000 cuneiform tablets and pieces and the personal archive of him.
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Its contents consisted of 70 cuneiform tablets comprising 7,000 celestial omens.
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About 50,000 cuneiform tablets have been recovered from the site.
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The cuneiform tablets were little used for many years and are now decaying.
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However, the considerable number of clay cuneiform tablets became partially baked.
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While the library had been destroyed, many fragments of the ancient cuneiform tablets survived, and have been reconstructed.
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Between half a million and two million cuneiform tablets are estimated to have been excavated in modern times.
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Although some of these cuneiform tablets have been deciphered, difficulty with site excavations has obscured the purpose and sometimes even the structure of many buildings.
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Cuneiform tablets could be fired in kilns to provide a permanent record, or they could be recycled if permanence was not needed.
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Most of the over 30,000 cuneiform tablets recovered from the site are administrative and economic texts from that time.
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These finds include roughly 1500 cuneiform tablets.
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Bodmer extended its project to cuneiform tablets and ancient coins.
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Besides the architectural and pottery findings from the excavation, almost 250 early cuneiform tablets and fragments were recovered, dating from the pre-sargonic period.
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Rassam collected thousands of cuneiform tablets, today with the acquisition of further tablets in the 20th century, the collection now numbers around 130,000 pieces.
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