The clay tablets were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. Clay tablets began to be used around 3300 BC; those made in the Third Dynasty of Ur, 2113-2006BC, have been excavated most abundantly. The clay table ts record events related to agriculture, the economy, politics, and other matters.
Cuneiform is one of the earliest systems of writing, distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. The name cuneiform itself simply means, "Wedge shaped".
The Sumerian invention of cuneiform—a Latin term literally meaning “wedge-shaped”— dates to sometime around 3400 B.C. In its most sophisticated form, it consisted of several hundred characters that ancient scribes used to write words or syllables on wet clay tablets with a reed stylus. The tablets were then baked or left in the sun to harden.
One of the greatest sources of information on ancient Mesopotamia is the so-called “King List,” a clay tablet that documents the names of most of the ancient rulers of Sumer as well as the lengths of their reigns.
Clay is practically indestructible. If it is of good quality and has been baked, everyone knows that it can withstand the elements without suffering in the least.
Clay tablets – medium of writing
Concept of fear
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Fear is the great force that prompts to acts of self-preservation and
operates as effectively in the brute as in the human animal.
In the psychological sc...
