Clay tablet, circa 2500 BCE

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Babylonian clay tablet created in Mesopotamia, circa 2500 BCE 3D model created in collaboration with the Witmer Lab Ohio University Libraries Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections Ohio University Pages from the Past: A Collection of Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts (catalog record) This set was compiled by The Foliophiles, Inc., a now-defunct New York association of rare book dealers also known as the Society of Foliophiles Many American universities purchased these portfolios as teaching tools in order to illustrate the evolution of manuscript and letterpress printing traditions Pages from the Past contains examples of both manuscript and printed leaves https://media.library.ohio.edu/digital/collection/p15808coll19/search/searchterm/Pages%20from%20the%20past/field/collec/mode/exact/conn/and/order/creati/ad/asc Ohio University MicroCT Scanner Facility Date = 10 July 2019 Energy = 120 kV Current = 32 mA Exposure = 63 ms Views = 1800 Frame Average = 2 Voxel Size = 0.0247mm