A letter found on a lead tablet in Bath, Somerset, datable to c. 363, had been widely publicised as documentary evidence regarding the state of Christianity in Britain during Roman times.

The earliest mention of the city of Babylon can be found in a tablet from the reign of Sargon of Akkad, dating back to the 24th century BC.

A tablet inscribed in Linear B found at Knossos records a gift " to all the gods honey ; to the mistress of the labyrinth honey.

The earliest form of musical notation can be found in a cuneiform tablet that was created at Nippur, Iraq in about 2000 B. C.

In a Linear B ( Mycenean Greek ) inscription on a tablet found at Pylos dated 1400 – 1200 BC, John Chadwick reconstructs the name of a goddess * Preswa who could be identified with Persa, daughter of Oceanus and finds speculative the further identification with the first element of Persephone.

Having discovered the entrance, Solomon found an idol inside that had in its mouth a silver tablet saying in Greek ( a language not thought by modern scholars to have existed 1000 years before the time of Solomon ) that the statue was of Shaddad, the son of ' Ad, and that it had reigned over a million cities, rode on a million horses, had under it a million vassals and slew a million warriors, yet it could not resist the angel of death.

* c. 1600 BC: The creation of one of the oldest surviving astronomical documents, a copy of which was found in the Babylonian library of Ashurbanipal: a 21-year record of the appearances of Venus ( which the early Babylonians called Nindaranna ): Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa.

The earliest mention of the city of Babylon can be found in a tablet from the reign of Sargon of Akkad ( 2334-2279 BC ), dating back to the 23rd century BC.

Subsequent scholars have found Langdon's work, including his tablet transcriptions, to be not entirely reliable.

A Mycenaean Greek reference found on a Linear B clay tablet at Pylos to a deity or semi-deity called TI-RI-SE-RO-E, Trisheros ( the " thrice or triple hero ") could be connected to the later epithet " thrice wise " " Trismegistos ", applied to Hermes / Thoth.

On the same Tn 316 tablet as well as other Linear B tablets, found in Pylos and Knossos, appears the name of the deity " Hermes " as E-MA-A, but not in any apparent connection with the " Trisheros ".

Touch screens like those found on some tablet computers and the Nintendo DS are operated in similar ways, but they usually use either optical grids or a pressure sensitive film instead, and therefore they do not need a special pointing device.

A marble tablet from the 3rd c. BC found in Ialyssus contains an inscription about the regulations for visitors to the temple of Alectrona.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Lachish was identified with Tell el-Hesi from a cuneiform tablet found there ( EA 333 ).

One research program, consisting of 1, 011 patients taking one tablet ( standardized to 84. 3 mg procyanidin ) twice daily for 24 weeks, found " improvements in clinical symptoms ( such as fatigue, palpitations, and exercise dyspnea ), performance and exercise tolerance test, and ejection fraction ".

In the northern part of the main cell, in the same black layer, a few inches south-east of the disc and about twenty inches above the floor, linear A tablet PH-1 was also found.

As the story is told, this tablet was found by Alexander the Great at Hebron supposedly in the tomb of Hermes.

A cuneiform tablet found in 1986 shows that Ugarit was destroyed after the death of Merneptah ( 1203 BC ).

These titles were also found engraved on a tablet in King Muryeong's tomb.

Wooden pegs were placed in the holes of the clay tablet to record features found in a sacrificed animal's liver.

This means that the commands of natural law do not depend on God's will ; these commands were those found on the first tablet of the Ten Commandments – the first three, which consist of obligations to God.

The Nephite prophet King Mosiah I was able to translate some records ( a stone tablet and twenty-four metal plates ), which the Mulekites had found.

Scotus held that while our duties to God ( found on the first tablet ) are self-evident, true by definition, and unchangeable even by God, our duties to others ( found on the second tablet ) were arbitrarily willed by God and are within his power to revoke and replace ( which is why God was able to command the murder of Isaac, the spoiling of the Egyptians, and the adulterous marriage of Hosea ).

In 1863, the crew of placed a bronze tablet on a spot called Selkirk's Lookout on a hill of the island in memory of his stay.

Other methods allow users to write characters on touchscreen, such as those on mobile phones and tablet computers.

Some of them are intended for tiny tablet computers and wireless mobile terminals, many of them are additionally available as apps on Apples iOS devices.

The Prologue of the Code of Hammurabi ( the first 305 inscribed squares on the stele ) is on such a tablet, also at the Louvre ( Inv # AO 10237 ).

Touch and tablet screens are used on LCD displays as a substitute for the light pen, which can only work on CRTs.

A Syrian clay tablet records a solar eclipse which occurred on March 5, 1223 B. C., while Paul Griffin argues that a stone in Ireland records an eclipse on November 30, 3340 B. C.

The notion of tabula rasa (" clean slate " or " blank tablet ") connotes a view of mind as an originally blank or empty recorder ( Locke used the words " white paper ") on which experience leaves marks.

What the mind ( nous ) thinks must be in it in the same sense as letters are on a tablet ( grammateion ) which bears no actual writing ( grammenon ); this is just what happens in the case of the mind.

Locke is famously attributed with holding the proposition that the human mind is a tabula rasa, a " blank tablet ," in Locke's words " white paper ," on which the experiences derived from sense impressions as a person's life proceeds are written.

However some scholars have disputed the Pythagorean interpretation of this tablet ; see Plimpton 322 for details .</ ref > indicating, in particular, that there was sophisticated understanding on the topic " in Mesopotamia in 1850 BCE.

* In October 2011, Toshiba announced 2560 × 1600 pixels on an 6. 1-inch LCD panel, suitable for use in a tablet computer, especially for Chinese character display.

File: NAMA Tablette 1287. jpg | Earliest recovered labyrinth, incised on a clay tablet from Pylos

The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched ( the original meaning of graffiti ) as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a waxed tablet ( the way Romans made notes ), or are in cuneiform writing, impressed with a pointed stylus in a flat tablet of unbaked clay.

According to La Marle's reading of Linear A, which have been heavily criticised as arbitrary we should read mwi-nu ro-ja ( Minos the king ) on a Linear A tablet.

The painted tablet on the back depicts Sól ( sun ) | Sunna, the two larger wooden idols Odin ( left ) and Freyr | Frey ( right ), in front of them there are the three Norns, and in the front row a red Thor and other idols.

:" taught the Shanyu ( rulers of the Xiongnu ) to write official letters to the Chinese court on a wooden tablet () 31 cm long, and to use a seal and large-sized folder ".

* The only known hyper-palimpsest: the Novgorod Codex, where potentially hundreds of texts have left their traces on the wooden back wall of a wax tablet

The discovery of the Rosetta Stone, a tablet written in ancient Greek, Egyptian Demotic script, and Egyptian hieroglyphs, has partially been credited for the recent stir in the study of Ancient Egypt.

The earliest Etruscan abecedarium, the Marsiliana d ' Albegna ( near Grosseto ) tablet which dates to c. 700 BC, lists 26 letters corresponding to contemporary forms of the Greek alphabet which retained san and qoppa but which had not yet developed omega.

A Linear B tablet from there, Cn3, mentions a region called Mezana in local Mycenaean Greek, from which groups of men named from places in the Peloponnesus each contributed one ox to an official named Diweus.

A tablet from the reign of First Dynasty King Djer ( c. 3000 BC ) was conjectured by early Egyptologists to indicate that the Egyptians had already established a link between the heliacal rising of Sirius ( Egyptian Sopdet, Greek Σείριος Seirios ) and the beginning of the year.

John Chadwick in the second edition of Documents in Mycenaean Greek speculates as follows about the goddess pe-re -* 82 of Pylos tablet Tn 316, tentatively reconstructed as * Preswa:

The word rhyton is not present in what is known of the oldest form of Greek, Mycenaean Greek, written in Linear B, but the bull's head rhyton, of which many examples survive, is mentioned in the inventory of vessels at Knossos, such as tablet 231 ( K872 ), as ke-ra-a, shown with the bull ideogram.

The statutes ( or bylaws ) of an ancient Greek religious organization devoted to the worship of Herakles, inscribed on a marble tablet.

Abacus is a Latin word that has its origins in the Greek words abax or abacus ( meaning " table " or " tablet ") which in turn, possibly originated from the Semitic word abq, meaning " sand ".

* Pella curse tablet, a magic spell, written in Doric Greek

The Pella curse tablet ( Greek katadesmos )

The Pella curse tablet, a text written in a distinct Doric Greek dialect, found in 1986 and dated to between mid to early 4th century BC, has been forwarded as an argument that the ancient Macedonian language was a dialect of North-Western Greek, part of the Doric dialects.

The Pella curse tablet is a text written in a distinct Doric Greek idiom, found in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedon, in 1986.

As a result, the Pella curse tablet has been forwarded as an argument that the Ancient Macedonian language was a dialect of North-Western Greek, part of the Doric dialects .< ref >: "...<< Macedonian Language >> de lOxford Classical Dictionary, 1996, p. 906: << Macedonian may be seen as a Greek dialect, characterized by its marginal position and by local pronounciation ( like Βερενίκα for Φερενίκα etc .)>>.

The language is a distinct form of North-West Greek, and the low social status of its writer, as ( arguably ) evidenced by her vocabulary and belief in magic, strongly hint that a unique form of West Greek was spoken by lay people in Pella at the time the tablet was written.

The discovery of the Pella curse tablet, according to Olivier Masson, substantiates the view that the ancient Macedonian language was a form of North-West Greek:

The best preserved dedication to Gobannus is found on the Bern zinc tablet, where his name is written ( in the dative and in Greek letters ).

Use of the Greek alphabet however seems to suggest that when the tablet was inscribed, Roman influence was not yet overwhelming, and Gaulish probably still in wide use.