I love how everyone goes "it wasn't chiselled!" and my first thought is, someone probably wrote this for them/recorded it for the court (or ancient equivalent) is the actual issue with the post!
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Were these stone? I was under the impression that these tablets were soft clay when first scribed and hardened either through a firing process or just over centuries of sitting around.
I've also seen videos of the guys scribing in Cuneiform, it looks like it could be done relatively quickly.
god can't believe i'm about to do this, but here goes…
shoves glasses up nose
akthually
cuneiform is a clay writing system. the tablets would have been written rather quickly using a sharpened reed called a stylus. the clay tablet would then be left to harden in the sun before transport. it's still pretty labor intensive, but nowhere near taking a chisel to stone
Thank you! I was fervently hoping that the one comment on this says exactly what you said, so I wouldn't have to...
that's cuneiform, actually. it isn't chiselled into stone, but rather, is pressed into wet clay with a stylus. the more you know!
it likely wasn't chisel, right? it was probably soft clay and a sharp instrument was used to carve the symbols.
WELL ACKSHUALLY its a clay tablet, you just press into it with a little stick, then its fired...
Gotta love the low-quality-copper memes
Now I wanna know what it says exactly.
This is amazing. Thank you!
They actually just pressed reeds into soft clay, then fired the tablet in a kiln. It probably took the same amount of time to write that as with any modern writing implements
Just imagine you are the blacksmith/engineer tasked with making nice copper swords for the king's army. After waiting months for the delivery, you now have to tell the king why his army will not be armed.
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