stone tablets
Ancient inscribed rock
Stone tablets are flat slabs of stone used as writing surfaces, especially in ancient times.
Laws, religious texts, and important records were carved or inscribed into stone for permanence.
The phrase evokes antiquity and authority—the Ten Commandments were delivered on stone tablets, so carved in stone tablets suggests something unalterable and sacred.
Figuratively, treating rules as if written on stone tablets implies excessive rigidity.
- cuneiformStylus-impressed ancient script
- ancient writingInscriptions from antiquity
- graniteIgneous rock, quartz-rich
- hieroglyphsAncient Egyptian picture-writing
- inscriptionsWords carved into surfaces
epigraphy · carving · Hammurabi · chisel · Ten Commandments · Mount Sinai · engraving · permanence · Moses · divine law · sacred covenant · covenant · lapis lazuli · ancient civilizations · marble · slate · sacred texts · inscribed
- ancient inscriptionscuneiform tablets, stele, cuneiform, inscription, hieroglyphics
- ancient historyancient history, ancient world, classical antiquity, ancient empires, Mesopotamia
- ancient artifactsjade mask, Viking sword, bronze sculptures, antiquities, Roman coin
- ancient communicationsmoke signal, hieroglyphs, carrier pigeon, pictographs, pictograms
- monumentsWashington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, Arc de Triomphe
- museum itemsartifacts, relics, specimens, exhibits, Egyptian artifacts
stone tabletspaper scrolls
Wound sheets with writing
digital screens · electronic displays · papyrus · parchment · paper
stone tabletselectronic documents
Computer-stored written files
cloud storage · smartphones · e-readers · hard drives · iPads
stone tabletsdisappearing ink
Liquid that fades away
skywriting · oral tradition · spoken word · smoke signals · whispered words