Printing and writing materials: their evolution (1901)
Smith, Adele Millicent · Philadelphia, The author · leaf 30
The inscriptions on the stone were prob-ably made with a chisel, but those on thebricks were made either from wooden stampscut in relief or by the separate impressions ofsome pointed instrument. The bricks show vari-ous shapes: square or oblong tablets, cones, andcylinders, the latter often of… … BABYLONIAN TABLET WITH CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTION. Size of the Original (2 x S% inches) in the Museum of Drexel Institute. ANCIENT RELIEF PROCESSES most of the tablets are sharp and well-defined,but in some cases they are so minute as to bealmost illegible without the aid of a magnifyingglass. Whole…
Writing · Printing · Paper industry · Bookbinding
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