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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

Urartian Tablet 12

Whetstone & Clay Cuneiform Tablets

WML 1963.188.1

WML 1963.188.2

WML 1963.188.5

WML 1963.188.6

WML 51.63.017

WML 51.63.049

WML 51.63.075

WML 51.63.085

WML 51.63.096

WML 51.63.102

WML 51.63.158

WML 51.63.176

WML 51.63.177

WML 51.63.178

WML 53.114.680

WO 08, 160-161

X.3.093

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