One tablet from this period reads, "( From the earliest days ) no-one had made a statue of lead, ( but ) Rimush king of Kish, had a statue of himself made of lead.

In a tablet unearthed at Kish ( dating from about 700 BC ), the scribe Bêl-bân-aplu wrote his zeros with three hooks, rather than two slanted wedges.

Two, from the Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa ( compiled in Babylon around 1700 BCE ) are reported to have been made during the reign of king Sargon of Akkad ( 2334 – 2279 BCE ).

The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tablet evoking upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

Roman writing tablet from the Vindolanda Roman fort of Hadrian's Wall, in Northumberland ( 1st-2nd century AD ) requesting money to buy 5, 000 measures of cereal used for brewing beer.

Reproduced Roman-style wax tablet, from which the codex evolved

* The Tabula Cortonensis, a bronze tablet from Cortona recording a legal contract.

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.

The earliest written reference to a flute is from a Sumerian-language cuneiform tablet dated to c. 2600-2700 BCE.

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.

The tablet, measuring, is usually dated from the dynasty of Sargon of Akkad between 2500-2300 BC ; an even earlier date for the tablet was promulgated by archeologist Leo Bagrow, placing it in the Agade Period ( 3800 BC ).

Because most of the kernel and supporting packages are free and open source software, Linux distributions have taken a wide variety of forms — from fully featured desktop, server, laptop, netbook, mobile phone, and tablet operating systems as well as minimal environments ( typically for use in embedded systems or for booting from a floppy disk ).

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

A tablet from about 1250 B. C.

Image: Pekiin tablet. jpg | Second Temple period stone tablet from a synagogue in Peki ' in, Israel

One of the earliest mathematical writings is a Babylonian tablet from the Yale Babylonian Collection ( YBC 7289 ), which gives a sexagesimal numerical approximation of, the length of the diagonal in a unit square.

A tablet at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, dating to 50 AD, was sent from Nazareth to Paris in 1878.

: The way in which they secure the passing round of the watchword for the night is as follows: from the tenth maniple of each class of infantry and cavalry, the maniple which is encamped at the lower end of the street, a man is chosen who is relieved from guard duty, and he attends every day at sunset at the tent of the tribune, and receiving from him the watchword — that is a wooden tablet with the word inscribed on it – takes his leave, and on returning to his quarters passes on the watchword and tablet before witnesses to the commander of the next maniple, who in turn passes it to the one next him.

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.

The tablet was inscribed during the reign of the Babylonian King Samsu-iluna, or slightly earlier, with a minimum date of 1712 BC.

Two, from the Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa ( compiled in Babylon round 1700 BC ) are reported to have been made during the reign of king Sargon of Akkad ( 2334-2279 BC ).

Meyer concluded from an ivory tablet from the reign of Djer that the Egyptian civil calendar was created in 4241 BC, a date that appears in a number of old books.

The first is the aforementioned ivory tablet from the reign of Djer which supposedly indicates the beginning of a Sothic cycle, the rising of Sothis on the same day as the new year.

However, this date is too late for Djer's reign, so many scholars believe that it indicates a correlation between the rising of Sothis and the lunar calendar, instead of the solar calendar, which would render the tablet essentially devoid of chronological value.

Above this, on four of its sides, is a tablet, to commemorate its reparation in the reign of Charles II.

The tablet's significance for corroborating Babylonian chronology was first recognised by Franz Xaver Kugler in 1912, when he could identify the enigmatic " Year of the Golden Throne " (" Venus " tablet K. 160 ) with the 8th year of the reign of Ammisaduqa.

A cuneiform tablet found in 1957 written in both the Hittite and the Akkadian language provides details of six years of his reign.

Furthermore, the first known representation of the sacred Henu-barque of the god Sokar was found engraved on a year tablet dating from his reign.

We may suppose that his real motives were a wish to do Justice to the merits of Zi-ruo, and to restore the symmetry of the tablets in the ' Hall of the Great and Complete One ' ( Dacheng-dian ), which had been disturbed by the introduction of the tablet of Zhu Xi in the preceding reign.

Unfortunately, the original tablet was broken in warfare, the present one is a duplicate under the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the Qing dynasty.

During the Guangxu reign ( 1875 – 1908 ) of Qing Dynasty, The last major renovation of the building probably took place ; it was indicated by the engraved characters on the stone tablet above the main entrance.

Another structure of Egarosindur, is one of the best-conserved monuments in the country. A pertain inscription tablet, fixed over the central mihrab, record that the mosque was built in 1062AH ( 1652AD ) by one Sadi, son of Shaikh Shiroo, during the reign of Shahjahan.

The Intercisa tablet was inscribed on behalf of " Cosmius, chief of the Spondilla customhouse, archisynagogus Iudeorum of the synagogue of the Jews " during the reign of Alexander Severus.

On June 21, 2012, espnW projected a digital mosaic featuring the largest-ever collection of women and girls ’ sports images ( all of which were submitted by the athletes themselves ) onto the First Amendment tablet of the Newseum in Washington, D. C.

The original bronze tablet with the names of the First World War dead is held inside the cathedral, in the Chapel of St. Michael.

A stone memorial tablet to Sir Thomas was erected in the chapel of Brighton College, part of which he had built as a First World War memorial in 1922 – 23.

He also is commemorated on a tablet inside the First Congregational Church of Bennington.

During the Qing Dynasty, at the entrances of mosques in China, a tablet was placed upon which the characters for " Huangdi, wansui, wansui, wanwansui " ( 皇帝萬歲 ， 萬歲 ， 萬萬歲 ) were enscribed, which means, " The Emperor, may he live forever ".

The stone tablet in front of the grave bearing Zhang Liang's name was erected in 1737 during the Qing Dynasty.

Its location was discovered by Sven Hedin in 1899, who excavated some houses and found a wooden Kharosthi tablet and many Chinese manuscripts from the Western Jin Dynasty ( 265 – 420 ).

A tablet on the site records the rebuilding of the temple in the Yuan Dynasty ( 1271 – 1368 ).

The ruin city of Loulan was discovered by Sven Hedin in 1900, who excavated some houses and found a wooden Kharosthi tablet and many Chinese manuscripts from the Western Jin Dynasty ( 265 – 420 ) which recorded that the area was called " Kroraina " by the locals in Kharosthi ( but which was rendered as " Lou-lan " in Chinese )

On an inscribed stone tablet outside of the gate is an official notification of the local government in the Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1911 ) is ordered to protect the tomb.

The mosque, built out of timber, is home to some important cultural relics and tablets such as the upright tablet of an emperor's decree proclaimed in 1694 during the Qing Dynasty.