Ancient Mesopotamian Stars & Planets Tablet

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This ancient tablet is inscribed with the names of countless celestial bodies, meticulously recorded on unbaked clay. As a lexicon, it serves as a comprehensive catalog of all known stars and planets in Mesopotamia around the year 2750 BCE. It's likely that a young scholar, still honing their skills in memorization, crafted this tablet. The double marks that resemble ditto marks today are indeed exactly what they appear to be - ancient predecessors to our modern abbreviations. In ancient Mesopotamia, these marks were used to avoid repetitive writings of the same word, just as we utilize them in everyday writing today.