Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Information Forms (hierarchy name)
5. information forms (objects)
6. information artifacts
7. [information artifacts by physical form]
8. tablets (information artifacts)

Narrower term/s

• Qur'anic boards

Anotations

Scope note:

Hand-held, flat objects used for writing or drawing, either directly, or as a flat, rigid support for another surface such as paper. If written upon directly, the tablets are typically coated with a substance such as clay, plaster, or wax upon which the characters or depictions are incised with a stylus.