It is recorded in the Linear B script on tablets dating from the 15th or 14th century BC onwards.

These scholars note parallels with a series of Morisco forgeries, the Sacromonte tablets of Granada, dating from the 1590s ; or otherwise with Morisco reworkings of Christian and Islamic traditions, produced following the expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain.

Some of the most important sources for this era are the writing tablets from the fort at Vindolanda in Northumberland, mostly dating to 90-110.

The first libraries consisted of archives of the earliest form of writing-the clay tablets in cuneiform script discovered in Sumer, some dating back to 2600 BC.

The first libraries consisted of archives of the earliest form of writing-the clay tablets in cuneiform script discovered in temple rooms in Sumer, some dating back to 2600 BC.

The MUL. APIN is a pair of cuneiform tablets dating from the 7th century BC that lays out the motions of the Sun, Moon and planets over the course of the year.

The earliest recorded dreams were acquired from materials dating back approximately 5, 000 years, in Mesopotamia, where they were documented on clay tablets.

" They lived during the reign of Darius I ( 522-486 ), the tablets dating from 509.

At the city of Uruk, archaeologists have excavated houses dating from the 5th and 4th centuries BCE in which cuneiform clay tablets have been unearthed containing magical incantations.

) and Sumerian clay tablets dating from 2, 150 B. C. E.

In this were found large numbers of inscribed clay tablets ( it is estimated that upward of 40, 000 tablets and fragments have been excavated in this mound alone ), dating from the middle of the 3rd millennium BC onward into the Persian period, partly temple archives, partly school exercises and text-books, partly mathematical tables, with a considerable number of documents of a more distinctly literary character.

The earliest known depiction of a tracheotomy is found on two Egyptian tablets dating back to around 3600 BC.

The study of the ductus ( writing style ), conducted by comparing the tablets with other inscriptions from the area of Central Italy, has allowed scholars to conclude for a dating from no later than the end of the III century for T. III and IV to the first half of the I century for the latest T. VI and VII.

The Tărtăria tablets, thought to be from the Danubian civilization, may be older still, having been carbon dated to before 4000 BCE, and possibly dating from as long ago as 5500 BCE, but their interpretation remains controversial.

Known Amorites ( mostly those of Mari ) wrote in a dialect of Akkadian found on tablets at Mari dating from 1800 – 1750 BC ; since the language shows many northwest Semitic forms and constructions, the Amorite language was presumably a northwest Semitic dialect.

There are also sparse mentions in tablets from Ebla, dating from 2500 BC to the destruction of the city ca.

The importance of these findings lies in the fact that the bulk of the Vinča symbols was created in the period between 4500 and 4000 BC, with the ones on the Tărtăria clay tablets even dating back to around 5300 BC.

It contained tablets dating to 595-570 BC.

* The horoscopes found in Sumerian / Babylonian tablets do not contain sufficient astronomical data ; consequently, they have solutions every 30 – 50 years on the time axis and are therefore useless for purposes of dating ;

He fully agrees with absolute dating methods for clay tablets or coins like thermoluminescence dating, optically stimulated luminescence dating, archaeomagnetic, metallographic dating, but points out that their precision does not allow for comprehensive pinpointing on the time axis either.

However, a dozen Ugaritic tablets from the fourteenth century BC preserve the alphabet in two sequences.

The oldest known name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti " was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty ( 2350 – 2150 BC ).

They include approximately 130, 000 cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia.

Developed by the Romans from wooden writing tablets, its gradual replacement of the scroll, the dominant form of book in the ancient world, has been termed the most important advance in the history of the book prior to the invention of printing.

Moses comes down from the mountain, smashes the stone tablets in anger, and commands the Levites to massacre the unfaithful Israelites.

During sporadic excavations at Boğazköy ( Hattusa ) that began in 1906, the archaeologist Hugo Winckler found a royal archive with 10, 000 tablets, inscribed in cuneiform Akkadian and the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of the two names.

Since acarbose and other alpha-glucosidase inhibitors prevents starch and other sugars from being broken down into monosaccharides that can be absorbed by the body, patients taking these medications should consume monosaccharide-containing foods such as glucose tablets, honey, or juice to reverse hypoglycemia.

The deity name " Oannes " first occurs in texts from the Library of Ashurbanipal ( more than a century after the time of Jonah ) as Uanna or Uan but is assimilated to Adapa, a deity first mentioned on fragments of tablets from the 15th or 14th century B. C.

On 9 August 1967, Kenneth Halliwell bludgeoned 34-year-old Orton to death at his home in Islington, London, with nine hammer blows to the head, and then committed suicide with an overdose of 22 Nembutal tablets washed down with the juice from canned grapefruit.

Over 30, 000 clay tablets from the Library of Ashurbanipal have been discovered at Nineveh, providing modern scholars with an amazing wealth of Mesopotamian literary, religious and administrative work.

The signs on the tablets and other ancient artifacts often show considerable variation from each other and from the representations below.

The earliest texts ( 7 archaic tablets ) come from the E Temple dedicated to the goddess Inanna at Uruk, from a building labeled as Temple C by its excavators.

In 2009, Chinese authorities seized over 40 million tablets that had been illegally trafficked from Burma.

Tablets based on MIPS include the Cruz tablets from Velocity Micro.

Assyrian tablets from the reign of Sargon II record attacks by a " Mita ", king of the Mushki, against Assyria's eastern Anatolian provinces.

The oldest surviving epic poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh, from the 3rd millennium BC in Sumer ( in Mesopotamia, now Iraq ), which was written in cuneiform script on clay tablets and, later, papyrus.

Though the Assyrians and the Babylonians impressed their cuneiform on clay tablets, they also wrote on parchment from the 6th century BCE onward.

The Fasti Triumphales ( also called Acta Triumphalia ) are fragmentary, inscribed stone tablets which were erected somewhere in the Forum Romanum during the reign of the first emperor, Augustus, and date from approximately 12 BCE.

With the exception of Babylonian dated tablets and some Egyptian inscriptions, we possess no contemporary evidence about the reign of Cambyses but the short account of Darius I in the Behistun Inscription.

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.

Although his reign has yet to be archaeologically attested, his name is found in later legendary tablets, and Etana is sometimes regarded as the first king and founder of Kish himself.

This ended with a destruction dated to around the 27th year of the reign of Samsu-iluna, son of Hammurabi, based on tablets found there.

The socio-economic history of Alalakh during the reign of Idrimi's son and grandson, Niqmepuh and Ilim-ilimma is well documented by tablets excavated from the site.

A visit to a shrine of the goddess Neith is recorded on several tablets 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.

The series includes omens of public apodoses ( mostly tablets 1 – 17 ), “ If a woman gives birth, and at birth ( the child ) is already as white as alabaster — end of the reign ; omen of a despotic king ,” and private apodoses ( mostly tablets 18 – 24 ), “ If a woman gives birth to an ecstatic, male or female, she has been impregnated in the street by a sinful man .” The sinful man being one who has leprosy ( garbānu ) or dropsy ( male mê ).

He claimed, like his father, descent from Kurigalzu and evidently kept court in Dūr-Kurigalzu itself because tablets found in the burnt ruins of the Tell-el-Abyad quarter which marked the later Elamite destruction of the city, are dated in the first two of his reign.