A tablet with proto-cuneiform pictographic characters, end of 4th millennium BC, Uruk III. This is thought to be a list of slaves' names, the hand in the upper left corner representing the owner.

This online presentation features 38 cuneiform tablets, presented with supplementary materials. The 38 tablets are dated from the reign of Gudea of Lagash (2144-2124 B.C.) to …

Nov 27, 2025 · Cuneiform was the most widespread and historically significant writing system in the ancient Middle East.

Cuneiform is one of the oldest forms of writing known. It means “wedge-shaped,” because people wrote it using a reed stylus cut to make a wedge-shaped mark on a clay tablet. Letters …

Nov 17, 2022 · By the middle of the Third Millennium B.C., cuneiform primarily written on clay tablets was used for a vast array of economic, religious, political, literary, and scholarly …

Nov 12, 2025 · The Cuneiform Tablets Collection (MSS 2016-002) consists of twenty-five clay tablets with text in cuneiform script. The content of the tablets is primarily related to agriculture …

Feb 25, 2025 · In summary, cuneiform tablets represent a monumental achievement in the history of writing and record-keeping. Their significance as the first libraries of Mesopotamia cannot …

Cuneiform tablets are clay tablets, cones, and brick fragments inscribed using the ancient writing system known as cuneiform. The Sumerians invented this writing system, which involves the …

With nearly 3,000 cuneiform tablets, Princeton Theological Seminary houses one of the largest collections of cuneiform in North America. The collection has been part of the Seminary’s …

Pythagorean Triples Tablet Plimpton 322 is one of the best known mathematical cuneiform texts. This text inspired a l...