Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unveiling of a tablet in honor of the late Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse, in the house in which he resided when in Rome, will take place March...
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...last number, certainly outdid itself in trying to be funny, when it published a cut of an old lady's wig, all powdered and curled, and asked below that agonizingly funny question, "What are the Wild Waves Saying?" Surely the reply comes as an echo from the Trinity Tablet that the Tech. - ha! ha! ha! has a page of - ha! ha! ha! cuts, don't look at them - ha! ha! ha! it's really too painful - ah! - [Nassau...
...epic, and has been discovered only in the last ten years. The interest centres chiefly about Izdubar, who has many points in common with the Bibical Nimrod with whom he has been partially identified. The poem was discovered a few years ago by George Smith while studying some baked tablets in the British Museum. It is impressed in cuneiform characters on twelve tablets of clay about ten by eight inches in dimension, each tablet containing one canto. The tablets are covered on both sides, and each side is divided into three columns of forty lines each, so that there...
...Donor's Tablet. Inscribed by Ka-me-da, Giver of bell to the Buddhist Temple, cast and engraved by Ko-ga-wa, Cu-ni-no-hi, in the eleventh year of the age Bunka...