blank tablet

Another almost life-size statue of Gudea — this one headless, so without the tight, wide-rimmed wool cap that elsewhere immediately identifies him — shows the prince seated and with a blank tablet on his lap.

There are some who believe that the mind is a blank tablet, on which experience is writ until the page be full, and the cryptic world is known; but I see rather that my own life hath been one long forgetting, the erasure of what was drawn, a terrible redaction; til all that remains is blank white and comfortless.

On the left, at top, is a blank tablet.

On the left at bottom a blank tablet, and near the woman’s left foot a large wing.

Gladys’s resolution was, so far, a blank tablet, not because purpose was absent, but because it was not yet become visible.