 When reading one line, the lines above and below it appear upside down.However, the writing continues onto the second side of the tablet at the point where it finishes off the first, so if the first side has an odd number of lines, the second will start at the "upper" left-hand corner, and the direction of writing shifts to top to bottom.Larger tablets and staves may have been read without turning, if the reader were able to read upside-down.