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Clay tablet

Through the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age, the Ancient Near East used clay tablets as a writing medium, particularly for writing in cuneiform.

A stylus made of reed was typically used to imprint cuneiform characters on a wet clay tablet. Many tablets were left brittle after being written on and dried in the sun or air. These clay tablets that weren't burnt could be reprocessed into fresh tablets by soaking them in water afterward. Hard and sturdy, other tablets were fired after they were written, either on purpose in hot kilns or accidentally when buildings burned down during the battle. Initially, archives consisted of collections of these clay manuscripts. 

Scribes

Writing wasn't always how it is now. Writing started out in Mesopotamia as basic counting marks, occasionally combined with a non-arbitrary symbol that was pressed into clay tokens or, less frequently, carved into wood, stone, or pottery. The precise quantity of commodities involved in a transaction might then be noted. 

When people started practicing agriculture and established long-term settlements around ever bigger, more structured trade markets, this convention got its start. These very little clay tokens were used continuously from the beginning of the historic period, circa 3000 BCE, when writing was widely adopted for recordkeeping, to the prehistoric Mesopotamian period, 9000 BCE.

Scribal records of events occurring during their time were therefore being kept on the clay tablet. The styluses that these scribes employed were easy to mark on the clay because of their sharp triangular ends; the tablets of clay themselves came in a range of colors, including charcoal, chocolate, and bone whit. A more advanced partial syllabic system developed after Sumerian cuneiform writing later developed, and by around 2500 BCE, it was able to record the vernacular or common people's everyday speech. Pictographs then started to appear on clay tablets around 4000 BCE.

Uses Of Tablet

Scribes were thus using the clay tablet to document events that occurred during their period. These scribes worked with styluses, which had sharp triangular ends and made writing on clay easier. The tablets of clay itself were colored in a range of hues, including bone white, chocolate, and charcoal. Around 4000 BCE, pictographs started to appear on clay tablets. Later, with the creation of Sumerian cuneiform writing, a more advanced partial syllabic system emerged, which by 2500 BCE was able to record the vernacular or common people's everyday speech.

Communication

With the advent of a mail-like method of message delivery, communication grew more quickly. Entire clay tablets, marked with a protective covering so no one else could read them, were marked with additional clay. In fifteen distinct languages, this mode of communication was employed for more than 3000 years. The libraries of clay tablets were owned by the Babylonians, Eblaites, and Sumerians.

Pro Writing

The interpretation of the Tărtăria tablets, which date back to the Danubian civilization, is still up for debate because the carbon in them changed when th
ey were fired in a furnace, even though indirect dating methods dating bones found near the tablet to before 4000 BCE suggest that the tablets may be even older.

History Of Regions

Babylonian

There are unearthed fragments of tablets from 1800–1600 BCE that contain the Epic of Gilgamesh. On tablets from the first millennium BCE, a complete copy has been discovered.

Approximately 1800 BCE can be found on tablets that contain Babylonian astronomical records, like Enuma Anu Enlil and MUL.APIN. Up until about 75 CE, more tablets talk about astronomy records. The Halley's Comet is mentioned in late Babylonian tablets held by the British Museum as having occurred in 164 BCE and 87 BCE.

Complaint Tablet To Ea-nasir

The clay tablet known as the complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir was composed approximately 1750 BCE and sent to the ancient city-state Ur. A consumer named Nanni has filed a complaint with a merchant named Ea-nāṣir. Written in the ancient Akkadian script, it could be the earliest documented grievance from a consumer. Right now, the British Museum is home to it. In Ea-nāṣir, in particular, and the content of the tablet became well-known online memes in 2015.

Code Of Hammurabi

A Babylonian law code written between 1755 and 1750 BC is known as the Code of Hammurabi. It is the most comprehensive, well-structured, and well-preserved legal document from the ancient Near East. It is supposedly authored by Hammurabi, the sixth monarch of Babylon's First Dynasty, in the Old Babylonian dialect of Akkadian. The main manuscript copy is etched on a 2.25 m (7 ft 4+1⁄2 in) tall basalt stele.

The stele, which had been stolen as booty six hundred years after it was created, was unearthed in 1901 at the site of Susa in modern-day Iran. For more than a thousand years, scribes from Mesopotamia copied and studied the text itself. Right now, the stele is kept in the Louvre Museum.

Cuneiform

The reed stylus, which created the wedge-shaped impressions that give cuneiform signs their name, started to supplant the round stylus about 2700 BCE. Like tokens, numerical impressions, and proto-cuneiform numerals, modern cuneiform numerals can be unclear about the numerical values they stand for. The Sumerian number system lacked a convention, such as a decimal point, to distinguish integers from fractions or greater exponents from lower ones, which contributes to the ambiguity. It is also partially due to the fact that the base unit of an object-specified counting system is not always known. In order to facilitate conversions between object-specific numbering systems, a common sexagesimal number system with place-value evolved around 2100 BCE.

Roman Numerals

Around the middle of the first millennium BCE, Etruscan symbols gave rise to the Roman numeralsThe Etruscan symbol system consisted of three crossed tally marks (similar to a modern asterisk) for 1, two crossed tally marks for 10, and three crossed tally marks for 100. The lower halves of the signs for 10 and 100 may have contributed to the formation of the inverted V shape for 5 and 50. However, there is no compelling explanation for how the Roman symbol C for 100 came to be from its asterisk-shaped Etruscan antecedent.