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 14 lines of impressed cuneiform text made by impressing a sharpened reed or stick into the still-wet clay just before undergoing the kilning process. Though untranslated, this tablet gives us insight into how those in antiquity communicated over long distances. Size: 1.125" W x 1.3" H (2.9 cm x 3.3 cm).

Provenance: private Vero Beach, Florida, USA collection; ex-private collection, acquired from an old French collection in 1965

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#141795

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

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