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historical-nonfiction: Both a cuneiform inscription and a map of the world. This Babylonian tablet shows (unsurprisingly) Babylon as the center of the world — the rectangle in the middle of the circle. Assyria, Elam and other places are also named.
roach-works:biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:xisuthrus:biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:moiracolleenodell: biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:just because you can afford to commission a scribe to chisel out cuneiform hatemail does not make
Cuneiform tattoo’s! Awesome!
ancientpeoples: Cuneiform tablet case impressed with two cylinder seals, for cuneiform tablet: record of a lawsuitc.2000-1900 BCFrom a Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony Assyrian When the merchants from Ashur in Assyria came to Anatolia
archaicwonder: The World’s First Female Author, Enhedu’anna This ancient clay tablet from Babylonia is inscribed in Sumerian cuneiform and dates to the 20th-17th centuries BC. It mentions King Sargon’s daughter Enhedu'anna as the author of a hymn
historyfilia: Map of the WorldFrom the British Museum.This tablet contains both a cuneiform inscription and a unique map of the Mesopotamian world. Babylon is shown in the centre (the rectangle in the top half of the circle), and Assyria, Elam and other
worldhistoryfacts: Record of Halley’s Comet in 164 BCE in Babylonian cuneiform. Halley’s comet, which is visible every 75 or 76 years, was first recorded by Chinese astronomers in 240 BCE. The comet most recently appeared in 1986 and is due again
tmirai:voljinsthighs:heartofkalimdor:Just thought id share that this is what Zandali looks likeLooks sorta like Cuneiform. How awesome! I’ve never noticed this before.
massarrah: List of Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses This fragment from the Library of Ashurbanipal contains part of an explanatory list of the names of gods written in Akkadian cuneiform of the Neo-Assyrian period. For some of the entries, the scribe
gdfalksen: Hittite cuneiform script.
noise-vs-signal: “Comparative evolution of Cuneiform, Egyptian and Chinese characters“ by G. Maspero (1870).
