The latter included ancient wooden tablets covered with an unknown form of writing.

They would have been more interested in me if I had been a tablet covered in hieroglyphics.

But let's face it, the kitchen gets messy, and no one wants their $500+ tablet covered in chicken grease and marinara.

On the table was a tablet covered with score-marks; what was erased looked like an attempt to draw a face.

Over a long feast of many elaborate courses, they would discuss her investments in land and trading ventures; she would ask sharp questions and make sharper suggestions while he wrote her wishes down on a wooden tablet covered with wax.

In 1831 his portrait and that of some Qajar princes were engraved on a rock at Cheshmeh Ali hill and its surrounding was decorated with tablets covered by poetry.

You have to know what it means to hold in your hands a tablet covered in symbols that predate cuneiform .

During his first stay, Eyraud remarked that in each house there were wooden tablets covered with "hieroglyphs", now known as rongorongo, but that the islanders no longer knew how to read them and paid them scant attention.

Yes, clay tablets covered with nothing but tiny stick figures for persons, trees, animals.

Along with excavation of the moai, the Routledges hoped to find more kohau rongorongo ("talking wood"): wooden tablets covered with inscriptions.