Clay tablets, Museo di Antichita, Turin, Italy
Mesopotamian clay tablets with scribal exercises in cuneiform script, paleo-Babylonian, 1900-1600 BC, in the Museo di Antichita, created 1940, housing collections of Greek and Roman antiquities and Turin and Piedmont history, from the House of Savoy, in the Palazzo Reale in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. The tablets show the various tasks student scribes undertook, such as multiplication tables, tracing syllabic graphemes, copying texts, transcribing dictated verses and poems, and mathematics. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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