Laurencekirk was, in the past, known for making snuff boxes with a special type of airtight hinge ( known as a " Laurencekirk hinge ") invented by James Sandy.

Although the merged Oakland Museum focuses on California art, history and nature, some " legacy " pieces from outside the state remain, such as a collection of snuff bottles and a carved jade pagoda.

Chinese snuff bottles in the British Museum in London.

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.

Another similarity is declared with the Ark of the Covenant described as the ritual object above which Yahweh was present ( Numbers 10: 33-36 ); or the burning bush which, according to Exodus, God spoke Moses through ; or the Ten Commandments which were the Word of God (" Dabar Elohim ") in tablet form.

On 11 November, she took an MDMA (" ecstasy ") tablet, and then drank approximately 7 litres of water in a 90 minute period.

" Moe " was said by some to be a drug dealer ( which in those days meant a counterculture figure who functioned more like a neighborhood grocer or bartender than a criminal nuisance ) or a shipment of drugs ( which in those days usually meant marijuana (" Moe's Loogs "...), hashish or the odd tablet or sugar-cube of LSD ).

1, 33 ), in which he characterizes the vivid portraiture of his life, character and thoughts, which Lucilius bequeathed to the world, " quo fit ut omnis Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella Vita senis ," (" Whereby the whole life of the old ( great ) man may be laid out as upon a votive tablet ") lose much of their force unless senis is to be taken in its ordinary sense — which it cannot be if Lucilius died at the age of forty-six.

This Venus tablet is part of Enuma anu enlil (" In the days of Anu and Enlil "), a long text dealing with Babylonian astrology, which mostly consists of omens interpreting celestial phenomena.

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 tablet in honor of Yan Hui (" The Continuator of the Sage, Duke of Yanguo ") in Temple of Yan Hui | his temple in Qufu

Equal is sold variously as a bottled powder (" Equal Spoonful "), in blue individual-serve sachets or packets, and as a dissolving tablet for use in beverages such as tea.

AMX home automation controls are now also available through separate applications (" apps ") for smartphones and tablet PCs through its authorised product partners such as Touch Panel Control.

The German historian Hanspeter Schaudig has identified a line on the Cylinder (" He Marduk saved his city Babylon from its oppression ") with a line from tablet VI of the Babylonian " Epic of Creation ", Enûma Eliš, in which Marduk builds Babylon.

A single tablet inscribed with " LEX " ( Latin for " Law ") is held by the figure, which is located to the right of the front steps of the United States Supreme Court Building.

The term in Latin equates to the English " blank slate " ( or more accurately, " scraped tablet ") ( which refers to writing on a slate sheet in chalk ) but comes from the Roman tabula or wax tablet, used for notes, which was blanked by heating the wax and then smoothing it to give a tabula rasa.

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.

The point of sale often refers to the physical electronic cash register or dedicated POS hardware ( or " terminal ") used for checkout, but the POS is simply the location where the sale is conducted, money changes hands and a receipt is given, which can also occur on a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or mobile POS device when the right hardware and POS software is combined with the mobile device.

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 ".

However, when it was taken down and flipped over, they discovered the words Damingmen ( 大明門 " Great Ming Gate ") already appeared on the back of the tablet ; it had already been re-used.

The Pinakothek der Moderne (= "( Art ) Gallery of the Modern "; from Greek: " pinax " = " board ", " tablet ") is a modern art museum, situated in the city centre of Munich, Germany.

Snuff tablet, sea mammal bone, Lombards Museum

In addition, The Verse Account of Nabonidus ( British Museum tablet 38299 ) states, " entrusted the army (?

Likewise, the Museum of the Ancient Orient, part of the Istanbul Archaeology Museums, also has a " Code of Hammurabi " clay tablet, dated to 1750 BC, in ( Room 5, Inv # Ni 2358 ).

A clay tablet, now in the British Museum, states: " In the 37th year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of the country of Babylon, he went to Mitzraim ( Egypt ) to wage war.

* Cuneiform tablet case-Metropolitan Museum of Art

Livy informs us that the rapid spread of the cult, which he claims indulged in all kinds of crimes and political conspiracies at its nocturnal meetings, led in 186 BC to a decree of the Senate – the so-called Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, inscribed on a bronze tablet discovered in Apulia in Southern Italy ( 1640 ), now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna – by which the Bacchanalia were prohibited throughout all Italy except in certain special cases which must be approved specifically by the Senate.

UCBC 9-1819 is a clay tablet housed in the collection of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of California.

In addition, The Verse Account of Nabonidus ( British Museum tablet 38299 ) states, " entrusted the army (?

The surviving copy is inscribed on a bronze tablet discovered in Calabria in Southern Italy ( 1640 ), now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

The lower tablet reads " The Palace Museum " ( 故宫博物院 )

The treaty that was established was inscribed on a silver tablet, of which a clay copy survived in the Hittite capital of Hattusa, in modern Turkey, and is on display at the Istanbul Archaeology Museum.

One particularly important tablet, currently on display at the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, details the terms of a peace settlement reached years after the Battle of Kadesh between the Hittites and the Egyptians under Ramesses II, in 1259 or 1258 BC.

Stone tablet of Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński in the Warsaw Uprising Museum

Cuneiform script | Cuneiform tablet with the Atra-Hasis Epic in the British Museum

Cuneiform script | Cuneiform tablet with the Atra-Hasis Epic in the British Museum

* British Museum: Cuneiform tablet from Sippar with the story of Atra-Hasis

The earliest copy of this tablet to be published, a 7th century BC cuneiform, part of the British Museum collections, was recovered from the library at Nineveh.

A memorial tablet on the Keller Museum, house number 76 in the main road named after him and in which the inventor once lived, celebrates him and his work.

The first lines of the lament were discovered on the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology catalogue of the Babylonian section, tablet numbers 2204, 2270, 2302 and 19751 from their excavations at the temple library at Nippur.

Its best-known holding is a cuneiform tablet inscribed with the Code of Hammurabi, however this is now on display in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.

The lower tablet reads " The Palace Museum " ( 故宫博物院 )

A tablet above the doorway reads " The Palace Museum " in Chinese.

Yale University lent the fragment to the British Museum temporarily ( but, in practice, indefinitely ) in exchange for " a suitable cuneiform tablet " from the British Museum collection.