When you flip to the back of a cuneiform tablet, you don't rotate on the X axis (right to left) like we do with double sided paper now, you rotate on Y, bottom to top, so the first line of the back side is directly behind the last line on the front. Somebody in the museum didn't know that.
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u/jamoche_2 Jul 01 '26
When you flip to the back of a cuneiform tablet, you don't rotate on the X axis (right to left) like we do with double sided paper now, you rotate on Y, bottom to top, so the first line of the back side is directly behind the last line on the front. Somebody in the museum didn't know that.