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<onlyinclude>The great antiquity of the practice [of writing on metal plates] may be seen in the discovery in 1937 of such a gold tablet in Sumerian Umma,...<ref>{{Book:Nibley:CW06|pages=[http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1107&index=5 Chapter 2], citing F. Thureau-Dangin, "Une tablette en or provenant d'Umma," ''Revue d'Assyriologie'' 34 (1937): 177—82.}}</ref></onlyinclude>

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[[Category:Hugh Nibley]]
[[Category:An Approach to the Book of Mormon]]
[[Category:Collected Works of Hugh Nibley Vol. 06]]
[[Category:Book of Mormon/Anthropology/Metal plates|Metal plates]]
[[Category:Book of Mormon/Anthropology/Culture/Old World|Old World]]