Chocolate Cuneiform Tablet

The Chocolate Cuneiform Tablet of the Cluster of Excellence 'Understanding Written Artefacts' was written by Cécile Michel and is hand-made in Hamburg by Confiserie Paulsen.

Translation

The men and women of the cluster which name is ‘Understanding texts written on clay or on stone or on bronze or on wax or on leather or on papyrus’ welcome you with greetings in the ‘House of the tablets for study and reading’.
Eat me and you will immediately be pleasing yourself.

Akkadian text (Old Babylonian, eighteenth century BCE)

mārū u mārātum liblibbī ša šumšu pīt uznim ša amātim eli ṭiṭṭim lu eli abnim lu eli siparrim lu eli izkurim lu eli maškim u lu eli urbānim šaṭrū ina bīt ṭuppī ša ihzi u tāmarti ina šulmim ihaddûkunūti
aklāni-ma adanniš lū tadammiqū