Clay tablet with cuneiform
2100 - 2000 BC
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This tablet preserves an account of wages paid to workers 4,000 years ago.
Developed in Ancient Mesopotamia, clay tablets were used for over 3,000 years. Scribes used a reed stylus to impress characters in moist clay. The tablets were usually dried in the sun or sometimes fired in kilns.
Documents were often archived in libraries where they could survive for millennia.
cu·ne·i·form| kyo͞oˈnēəˌfôrm, ˈkyo͞onēəˌfôrm, ˈkyo͞onəˌfôrm | adjectivedenoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets: a cuneiform inscription. • Anatomy denoting three bones of the tarsus (ankle) between the navicular bone and the metatarsals. • mainly Biology wedge-shaped: the eggs are cuneiform.
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Funerary ensemble from a young girl’s grave.
Southern cemetery of Pydna (Alikes near Kitros), Pieria. 325–300 B.C.E.
This burial of a young girl contained 21 clay figurines, clay vessels, a gold coin of Philip II, and gold jewelry. Young children were often accompanied by large numbers of figurines that have been interpreted as farewell offerings or gifts that were made during the burial ceremony. Ensembles of clay figurines also often accompanied the burials of girls or young women, whose lives were cut short before they could attain marriageable age.
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