For Nabû, august, majestic and awesome heir, firstborn son of Asarre, foremost of all, who bears the tablet of destinies of the gods, whom the Igigi gods respect most in the entire universe, my lord, I, Šamaš-riḫtu-uṣur, son of Šamaš-iddina, the baker of Šamaš and Aya, with joy in my heart went out to the open countryside. I picked up some clean clay and brought it from the holy clay-deposit. I loaded(!) it on my shoulder and transported it. For my good health, for a long life, for well-being, for the well-being of my father’s household, my own stability and my successful raising(!) of a family, I(!) wrote (this) tablet. I(!) sent it in to the gunnu-container, to the porter of the door of E-babbarra. O tablet, when you enter, [intercede(?)] for Šamaš-riḫtu-uṣur, son [of Šamaš-iddina! … ]. – Notation by a Babylonian student on his dedicated scribal tablet, MS 5007, from Shana Zaia, Gods in the Classroom: Religion and Education in 1ST Millennium BCE Babylonia https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/iraq/article/gods-in-the-classroom-religion-and-education-in-1st-millennium-bce-babylonia/EB059EE81804DCBC1848CACBD6298E0B via Archaeology News Online Magazine https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/how-babylonian-students-learned-about-gods/ #history #Archaeology #Babylon #writing #education