Clay tablets

ancient syllabary for Mycenaean Greek used ca. 1400 BCE – 1200 BCE

thumb|upright|''Portrait of the Scribe Mir 'Abd Allah Katib in the Company of a Youth Burnishing Paper'' (Mughal Empire, ca. 1602) A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing.

library

Basileus () is a Greek term and title that has signified various types of monarchs throughout history. In the English-speaking world, it is perhaps most widely understood to mean , referring to either a or an . The title was used by sovereigns and other persons of authority in ancient Greece (especially during the Hellenistic period), the Byzantine emperors, and the kings of modern Greece. The name Basileios (Basil), deriving from the term basileus, is a common given name in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Syriac Orthodox Church for the Maphrian.

brief statement of a book's own information, such as publisher, location, and date of publication

writing medium

thumb|upright=1.2|Decorated incipit page to the Gospel of Matthew, 1120–1140

clay tablet from ancient Babylon considered to be the oldest known written complaint

peace treaty concluded between Ancient Egypt and the Hittites

archaeological culture of Mesopotamia

6th century BCE Babylonian clay tablet written in Akkadian with a labeled depiction of the known world

Babylonian clay tablet

archaeological site in Iraq

thumb|One of the two clay tablets on which the text is written. This exemplar shows that the tablet is unusually huge (as large as a sheet of paper) and the text is written in two columns.

archaeological artifact

Ancient Neo-Assyrian record of astronomical observations of Venus

collection of clay tablets from the ancient city of Ebla in Syria

archaeological site, part of ancient Pylos

collection of music inscribed in cuneiform on clay tablets excavated from the ancient Amorite-Canaanite city of Ugarit

ancient Babylonian text, part of a larger series of Babylonian

Babylonian astrology tablets

ancient clay tablet showing an approximation of √2

person named in Kushim Tablet

Arabish lament

Clay tablet in Mesopotamian mythology

tablets recording Babylonian history

Babylonian cuneiform texts

creation myth

clay administrative archives found in Persepolis dating to the Achaemenid Persian Empire

oldest surviving literary text in the world

Museum in Syria

Etruscan terracotta slab

Clay tablet depicting Greek mysteries

babylonian scholarly list of Mesopotamian deities

lagash cylinders

cuneiform inscription

Collection of archaeological artifacts

bronze Age European tablets

archaeological artifacts

Ancient love poem about sacred marriage

Sumerian creation myth

series of ancient Mesopotamian glossaries

thumb|Tablet bearing part of the Danel epic, Louvre Danel (, Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎐𐎛𐎍 DNỈL, "El is judge"), father of Aqhat, was a culture hero who appears in an incomplete Ugaritic text of the fourteenth century BCE at Ugarit (now Ras Shamra), Syria.

Sumerian creation myth

sumerian creation myth

Sumerian creation myth

8th century BC Mesopotamian text

collection of ancient Near-Eastern works

babylonian chronicle