Summagraphics also made an OEM version of its BitPad which was sold by Apple Computer as the Apple Graphics Tablet accessory to their Apple II.

Huwawa is first mentioned in Tablet II of the Epic of Gilgamesh: after Gilgamesh and Enkidu become friends following their initial fight, they set out on an adventure to the Cedar Forest beyond the seventh mountain range, to slay Huwawa ( Humbaba ): “ Enkidu ,” Gilgamesh vows, “ since a man cannot pass beyond the final end of life, I want to set off into the mountains, to establish my renown there .” Gilgamesh tricks the monster into giving away his seven “ radiances ” by offering his sisters as wife and concubine.

Tablet II begins with more overpopulation of humans and the god Enlil sending first famine and drought at formulaic intervals of 1200 years to reduce the population.

Tablet II is mostly damaged, but ends with Enlil's decision to destroy humankind with a flood and Enki bound by an oath to keep the plan secret.

) is the name of a female character who appears in Tablets I / and II of the Epic of Gilgamesh -( and later in Tablet VII ).

In the Epic of Gilgamesh ( Tablet II, col. v. 28 ) it says: ' For Ishara the bed is made ' and in Atra-hasis ( I 301-304 ) she is called upon to bless the couple on the honeymoon.

The Tablet has also been found appended to manuscripts of the Kitab Ustuqus al-Uss al-Thani ( Second Book of the Elements of Foundation ) attributed to Jabir ibn Hayyan, and the Kitab Sirr al-Khaliqa wa San ` at al-Tabi ` a (" Book of the Secret of Creation and the Art of Nature "), dated between 650 and 830 AD.

* The Flood Tablet, relating part of the famous Epic of Gilgamesh

Tablet containing a fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh

Tablet from the Library of Ashurbanipal containing part of the Epic of Gilgamesh

Tablet III, ii lines 55 – 56 of the Atrahasis Epic state that " He severed the mooring line and set the boat adrift.

The novel's title is a line from The Epic of Gilgamesh following the death of Enkidu, Tablet VIII, generally translated as " I let a filthy mat of hair grow over my body, and donned the skin of a lion and roamed the wilderness.

* The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet XI – The Story of the Flood

Tablet III of the Atrahasis Epic contains the flood story.

* Giorgio Buccellati, A Lu E School Tablet from the Service Quarter of the Royal Palace AP at Urkesh, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol.

*" The Celebration of the Semi-Centennial of the Chicago Astronomical Society and the Dedication of a Tablet to the Memory of Truman Henry Safford ," Popular Astronomy, vol.

Doty, A Cuneiform Tablet from Tell Umar, Mesopotamia, vol.

The Chapel of the Tablet at the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum allegedly houses the original Ark of the Covenant.

The Lyon Tablet preserves his speech on the admittance of Gallic senators, in which he addresses the Senate with reverence but also with criticism for their disdain of these men.

The best option for users of Windows XP having rotated LCD displays ( Tablet PCs or swivel-stand LCD displays ) is using regular anti-aliasing, or switching off font-smoothing altogether.

Translations of the Discourses ( e. g. by Elizabeth Carter, George Long ) have included the Enchiridion, and it has often been included with other moral writings from the ancient world, most notably the Tablet of Cebes.

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The very core of their teaching can be found within the material provided to the I * of the Temple, The Crystal Tablet of Set.

The Dispilio Tablet, which was carbon dated to the 6th millennium BC, may be evidence that writing was used even earlier than that.

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However, Plato himself and Greeks had copied 1, 500 older Egyptian fraction abstract unities, one being a hekat unity scaled to ( 64 / 64 ) in the Akhmim Wooden Tablet, thereby not getting lost in fractions.

The oldest significant astronomical text that we possess is Tablet 63 of ' Enūma Anu Enlil ', the Venus tablet of Ammi-saduqa, which lists the first and last visible risings of Venus over a period of about 21 years and is the earliest evidence that the phenomena of a planet were recognized as periodic.

For example, on-line recognition, such as that used for gestures in the Penpoint OS or the Tablet PC can tell whether a horizontal mark was drawn right-to-left, or left-to-right.

Blunden can also be heard on Memorial Tablet, an audiobook of readings by Sassoon issued in 2003.

The Ninnion Tablet, found in the same museum, depicts Demeter, followed by Persephone and Iacchus, and then the procession of initiates.

It is also being used in embedded devices like the Internet Tablet OS from Nokia, which is found on the Nokia 770, N800 and N810 Internet Tablets.

In September, 2010, the company announced a tablet computer, the BlackBerry PlayBook, and a new operating system BlackBerry Tablet OS based on QNX to run on the tablet.

The Kish Tablet or Scheil dynastic tablet is an early 2nd millennium BC tablet which came into possession of Jean-Vincent Scheil ; it only contains king list entries for four Sumerian cities.

In 1960, the Apkullu-list ( Tablet No. W. 20030, 7 ) or “ Uruk List of Kings and Sages ” ( ULKS ) was discovered by German archaeologists at an ancient temple at Uruk.

On May 27, 2010, Wired released its Tablet edition, first available on the iPad.

Over the ensuing days, Apple named the Wired Tablet Edition " The App of the Week ," making it the first media brand to earn this acknowledgment ; and the Wired App remained the No. 1 Paid Download on iTunes for 5 consecutive days.

Instead, the Hebrew name Ahasuerus accords with an inscription of the time that notes that Artaxerxes II was named also Arshu, understood as a shortening of Achshiyarshu the Babylonian rendering of the Persian Khshayarsha ( Xerxes ), through which the Hebrew Achashverosh ( Ahasuerus ) is derived.

Another view attempts to identify him instead with Artaxerxes I ( ruled 465 – 424 BCE ), whose Babylonian concubine, Kosmartydene, was the mother of his son Darius II ( ruled 424 – 405 BCE ).

Under the direction of Nebuchadnezzar II, Babylonian armies exiled three thousand Jews from Judah, deposing King Jehoiachin in 597 BCE.

The Babylonian Talmud was compiled from discussions in the houses of study by the scholars Ravina I, Ravina II, and Rav Ashi by 500 CE, although it continued to be edited later.

For the unnamed " king of Babylon " a wide range of identifications have been proposed. They include a Babylonian ruler of the prophet Isaiah's own time the later Nebuchadnezzar II, under whom the Babylonian captivity of the Jews began, or Nabonidus, and the Assyrian kings Tiglath-Pileser, Sargon II and Sennacherib, Herbert Wolf held that the " king of Babylon " was not a specific ruler but a generic representation of the whole line of rulers.

Some of the important historical Mesopotamian leaders were Ur-Nammu ( king of Ur ), Sargon ( who established the Akkadian Empire ), Hammurabi ( who established the Old Babylonian state ), Ashur-uballit II and Tiglath-Pileser I ( who established the Assyrian Empires ).

* Nebuchadnezzar II ( 634-562 BC ), the Babylonian ruler mentioned in the biblical Book of Daniel

The Kingdom of Judah came to an end in 587 BC when Babylonian forces under Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem, and removed most of its population to their own lands.

* 605 BC: Battle of Carchemish: Crown Prince Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon defeats the army of Necho II of Egypt, securing the Babylonian conquest of Assyria.

He was deposed by the powerful Assyrian king Ashur-uballit I, who sacked Babylon, annexed Babylonian territory for the Middle Assyrian Empire, and installed Kurigalzu II ( 1345 BC-1324 BC ) as ruler.

Neither the names Xerxes II nor Sogdianus occur in the dates of the numerous Babylonian tablets from Nippur ; here effectively the reign of Darius II follows immediately after that of Artaxerxes I.

* 567 BC — Former pharaoh Apries invades Egypt with Babylonian help but is defeated by Saite pharaoh Amasis II ( also known as Ahmose II ).

* 605 BC — Battle of Carchemish: Crown Prince Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon defeats the army of Necho II of Egypt, securing the Babylonian conquest of Assyria.

Its tentative attribution to the 6th century BC Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II by the assyriologist Dalley or to pre-Hellenistic Egypt has been refuted on the grounds of " the total lack of any literary and archaeological evidence for the existence of the water-screw before ca.

Indeed an inscription from the time of Ataxerxes II records that he was also known as Arshu understood to be a shortening of the Babylonian form Achshiyarshu derived from the Persian Khshayarsha ( Xerxes ).

According to the Book of Jeremiah in the summer of 605 BC Carchemish was the site of an important battle was fought by the Babylonian army of Nebuchadrezzar II and that of Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt.

The last Amoraim are generally considered to be Ravina I and Rav Ashi, and Ravina II, nephew of Ravina I, who codified the Babylonian Talmud around 500 CE.