The writing--as in all cuneiform inscriptions, excepting those upon seals--is from left to right, and the lines are carefully separated from one another.

Some specimens have been already given.
The tablets of the Chaldaeans are among the most remarkable of their remains, and will probably one day throw great additional light on the manners and customs, the religion, and even, perhaps, the science and learning, of the people.

They are small pieces of clay, somewhat rudely shaped into a form resembling a pillow, and thickly inscribed with cuneiform characters, which are sometimes accompanied by impressions of the cylindrical seals so common in the museums of Europe.

The seals are rolled across the body of the document, as in the accompanying figure.
[PLATE VII., Fig.

2.] Except where these impressions occur, the clay is commonly covered on both sides with minute writing.