Sumerian school exercise tablet written in cuneiform script, dating from between 2200 BC and 1900 BC. The student tablets can be recognized by their roundness, made so by scribes in order not to confuse them with other tablets, which were almost always square or rectangular. All student tablets were unfired as the intention was to reuse the same tablet. The teacher in the scribal school (edubba) typically inscribed the lesson, three words or a short sentence, on one side of the tablet, and the student copied and recopied it onto the other side until memorized correctly.

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