clay tablet

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A writing medium made of clay used in Mesopotamia and nearby regions. historical
    — “He is the stench of a mongoose... a smitten man who makes himself important.” No, this isn’t clunky dialogue from a low-budget film. It’s one of the many pieces of correspondence archaeologists have discovered etched on clay tablets in Uruk, the chief city of Sumer, the earliest known civilization in southern Mesopotamia (near present-day Samawah, Iraq).

词形变化

clay tablets plural

词源

From clay + tablet.
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