Sentence examples for clay tablet from inspiring English sources

"I've made all these neat little marks on a clay tablet".

PHILADELPHIA — Visitors to the Penn Museum might never see the red clay tablet.

One letter is imprinted into a clay tablet dating back to the 14th century BC.

Third, in Mesopotamia there existed a stable technology for recording data the clay tablet.

The second hovers above a clay tablet stamped with the Pauper's Oath.

Figure 1: Clay tablet showing ancient calculation and accounting practices (ca.3200 3000 BCE).

A small clay tablet engraved in the 6th century B.C., it talks of tolerance, respect and diversity.

In 1985, an ordinary-looking clay tablet inscribed in cuneiform script was brought into the British Museum.

The bulk of the stela contains the text of the code, partly erased on the obverse but restorable in some measure from clay-tablet versions of the same laws.

Ample specimens of Akkadian-language clay-tablet epistolography have been found at several sites, notably Tell el-Amarna in Egypt and Tell al-Ḥarīrī on the middle Euphrates (the ancient Mari of c. 1700 bce).

An undeciphered clay-tablet is described by him as variously a potato waiting to be harvested, a sponge to be squeezed as tightly as possible and a bombshell that might go off at any minute.