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To: BGHater

Not surprisingly, alot of the earliest tablets and scripts have been shown to be pretty mundane - 24 bushels of wheat, 14 cows, that sort of thing. Basic accounting and contracts.


20 posted on 05/29/2009 10:13:55 PM PDT by djf (Man up!! Don't be a FReeloader!! Make a donation today!)
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To: djf
Not surprisingly, alot of the earliest tablets and scripts have been shown to be pretty mundane - 24 bushels of wheat, 14 cows, that sort of thing. Basic accounting and contracts.

My husband CT scanned a clay tablet within a clay "envelope" to see if the script inside was legible and decipherable. Just a couple of days before he was to present his paper at a conference in Jerusalem, they were finally able to manipulate the image well enough for a scholar, in California I think, to read it. It was indeed a contract or shopping list of some sort. It was a interesting project for him.

30 posted on 05/31/2009 5:35:54 AM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of cat attacks while typing!)
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