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Panel of a Writing Board; Neo-Assyrian period, 721–705 B.C.
Mesopotamia; excavated at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu)
Northwest Palace, well in Room AB
Expedition of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq
Ivory
Rogers Fund, 1954 (54.117.12a)


This panel formed one part of a hinged writing board. Scribes would have filled the depression in the board with wax to make a writing surface in which cuneiform signs could be impressed and erased.
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