A broad and thin brick, usually made of fine clay, and hardened in the fire. Such tiles were very common in the region of the Euphrates and Tigris, (See Ezekiel 4:1 . Great numbers of similar rude sketches of places, as well as of animals and men, are found on the tiles recently exhumed from the ancient mounds of Assyria, interspersed among the wedge-shaped inscriptions with which one side of the tile is usually crowded. At Nineveh Layard found a large chamber stored full of such inscribed tiles, like a collection of historical archives, Ezra 6:1 . They are usually about a foot square, and three inches thick.

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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Tile'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/t/tile.html. 1859.

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