Pottery and porcelain of all times and nations; with tables of factory and artists' marks for the use of collectors (1878)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 55
ottery. Both the Babylonians and the Assyrians used pottery for the purposes to which we apply paper. They impressed on sheets or plaques of prepared clay (Ills. 18, 19) writings which they desired to make permanent, and baked them for preserva- tion. No equally sure method of preserving rec- IV.… … 18. Inscribed Tablet of Pottery. of the Deluge, and future examination is destined to bring out from the same sources much of the history of Assyria and Babylonia. Sometimes these tablets are double, one containing within itself a duplicate record. They are found in Babylonia as well as As- syria.…
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