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Achaemenid period (ca. 550 - 330 BCE). I'd heard about and no doubt seen cuneiform tablets, but it wasn't until I visited the museum at Persepolis that I realized the medium (a clay tablet) and the form of writing are utterly alien to the vast majority of people alive today. And yet this was the medium of communication and record keeping in ancient Persia. I can't help but be in awe of modern scholars who have gained the expertise to read these tablets. What I don't know is whether this tablet and others that survived at Persepolis were baked intentionally to preserve them, or whether they happened to survive because the building they were in went up in flames in antiquity. It would be interesting to know whether this particular tablet has ever been translated, and what it says. My guess is it a commercial record of some kind rather than drama or literature. In the collection of the museum at Persepolis, Iran, |
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Clay Tablet with Cuneiform Inscriptions
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| Author | A.Davey from Portland, Oregon, EE UU |
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