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# The surprisingly simple method Assyrian scribes used to create clay tablets
- URL: https://www.assyriapost.com/the-surprisingly-simple-method-assyrian-scribes-used-to-create-their-clay-tablets/
- Published: 2026-05-31T20:41:47.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-31T20:42:14.000Z
- Description: The results of a study show that scribes did not always refine their clay, barely used fire to harden the texts, and that tablets made in the workshop coexisted with others brought from outside.
- Author: The Assyria Post
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There, inside an elite residence, a room was discovered containing more than 200 broken tablets, a large **block of raw clay** (one meter high, 1.9 wide, and 1.6 long), and what could be a tiny **bronze stylus**. The context, dated just before the fall of Nineveh in 612 BCE, has been interpreted as a possible *scriptorium* or tablet-making workshop.

The research, led by Mathilde Jean (University of Paris Nanterre and the British Museum), analyzed in depth five of those tablets and the **clay clod** to answer three fundamental questions: whether all the tablets could have been made in that same workshop, which techniques the scribes used, and how to better interpret this archaeological space. The results, far from showing uniformity, reveal a surprising diversity of procedures and materials.

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[A Cuneiform Tablet Workshop Found in Ancient Nineveh Reveals That Assyrian Scribes Never Fired or Carefully Prepared ThemAn international team of archaeologists and scientists has shed light on how the famous cuneiform writing tablets were manufactured in ancient Assyria. The study, published in the journal Archaeometry, focuses on an exceptional discovery made between 2019 and 2023 in the city of Nineveh, present-day![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/5d/f5/5df5a6c1-1f57-4975-951e-ddd33d31dec7/content/images/icon/cropped-logo-square-0d98ba-270x270-0ee09f7505c1ce67acf2a32cd8e3ae6877cee10e7aac1e65f4b00c5c186856a1.png)La Brújula VerdeGuillermo Carvajal![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/5d/f5/5df5a6c1-1f57-4975-951e-ddd33d31dec7/content/images/thumbnail/arcm70144-fig-0002-m-ae0810e12f57e03a82448a597507e19713960ce682cd77693a61371c8eba1c45.webp)](https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/05/a-cuneiform-tablet-workshop-found-in-ancient-nineveh-reveals-that-assyrian-scribes-never-fired-or-carefully-prepared-them/?ref=assyriapost.com)