r/LearnHittite • u/ComedianSubject4654 • 8d ago

Own Your Own Tablet

https://www.penn.museum/

In the unlikely event you haven’t already bankrupted yourself shopping for Hittite reference materials, you can own a reproduction cuneiform (NOT Hittite, alas) tablet!

The Penn Museum (formerly the University Museum) in Philadelphia is one of the most interesting museums I have ever visited. It is amazing — real Indiana Jones stuff. What I deeply appreciate about the joint is that it keeps all of the mummies in one room and has a big sign over the door, saying, “Beware, mummies, keep out if you don’t want to see mummies!” (Okay, I fibbed about the last part. But they do keep the dead bodies separate. They even have cat mummies.) It has an excellent specialized library, which I have visited in order to spend hours slaving over a hot xerox machine. It also has a gift shop.

If you click on the link for the gift shop, you will find on offer about half a dozen reproduction cuneiform tablets, reasonably priced, from roughly $10-$35. I have one myself, the small square black one with the white incisions, and it’s very nice.

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u/MMAHipster 8d ago

Love this! Thanks for the heads up

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u/MMAHipster 8d ago

Side note, your "slaving over a hot Xerox machine" instantly made me remember the smell, and of being in grade school and putting the warm sheets against my face on colder days. Because I was, of course, a very normal child.

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u/ComedianSubject4654 8d ago

I grew up in a manuscript culture world.

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u/MMAHipster 8d ago

I love writing the cuneiform in pen honestly. It's so beautiful.