Description:

Ancient Near East, Sumer, Third Dynasty of Ur, ca. 2080 to 2030 BCE. A small clay tablet of a rectangular form with planar peripheries and slightly convex faces. The tablet boasts fifteen lines of impressed cuneiform text made by impressing a sharpened reed or stick into the still wet clay before placing in the kiln. Size: 1.125" W x 1.4" H (2.9 cm x 3.6 cm).

Provenance: private Vero Beach, Florida, USA collection, acquired by present owner from an old private English collection in 1964

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#137883

  • Condition: Surface wear and minor abrasions commensurate with age, small nicks to faces and peripheries, and light fading to some impressed cuneiform characters, otherwise intact and very good. Light earthen deposits throughout. Old Arabic paper strip adhered to outer periphery.

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