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HS 928 03 front

HS 929 02 left

HS 931 03 front

HS 932 06 back

HS 933 01 top

HS 937 04 right

HS 941 03 front

HS 944 03 front

HS 960 05 bottom

HS 961 03 front

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ImagineRITCaryGraphicArtsCollectionCuneiformTablet

Inscribed stone tablet of Entemena, 2400 BCE. From Lagash, Iraq. Pergamon Museum

Jehoiachin Ration Tablet detail

Meaning of pre-cuneiform pictogrpahic characters

Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tablets

Mesopotamian - Mesopotamian Tablet - Walters 481803 - View A

Middle Assyrian cuneiform tablet - administrative memorandum

Middle Assyrian cuneiform tablet - administrative record

Middle Assyrian cuneiform tablet recording barley allocations

Numerical tablet Khafaje OIM A21310

Persepolis clay tablet

Ritmal-Cuneiform tablet - Kirkor Minassian collection - Library of Congress

School tablet - Sumerian cuneiform - Susa - 2nd mil BC - National Museum of Iran - Inventory number - 1885

Semitic Babylonian contract-tablet

State Library of Victoria - Joy of Museums - Cuneiform Tablet

Stone cuneiform tablet with building-dedicatory inscription of Nabû-balassu-iqbi MET ME56 81 53

Stone cuneiform tablet with inscription of Ashurnasirpal II MET DP247102

Stone cuneiform tablet with inscription of Ashurnasirpal II MET DP249703

Sumerian Cuneiform Stone Tablet AO 3866

Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating approximately 2041 B.C. Is a receipt for the donation of livestock to the feast for a Sumerian king

Sumerian - Protoliterate Tablet - Walters 41219 - View A

Tablet and enveloppe Ashmolean 1930.407

Tablet BM131452

Tablet city seal offering Ashmolean

Tablet of Shamash

Tablet of Shamash (2)

Tablet of Tiglath-Pileser II

Tablet with cuneiform abecedarium-AO 19992-IMG 6956

Tablet Zimri-Lim Louvre AO20161

Temple evolution in cuneiform (sound E)

The Newly Discovered Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Meeting Humbaba, with Enkidu, at the Cedar Forest. The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan

The oldest writing in the world - The Sumerian Stone Tablet

Triangle geometrical tablet Ashmolean 1931 91

Turkish - Cappadocian Tablet with Cumeiform Inscription - Walters 481463 - View A

United States versus Approximately 450 Ancient Cuneiform Tablets, 2017 (page 1 crop)

Ur Bau tablet AO261 mp3h9041