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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Antiquities| > |Antiquities by Type| > |Ancient Writing| > AAA30982
Babylonian Administrative Text, Cuneiform Clay Tablet, Ur III Period, 2100 - 2000 B.C.
|Ancient| |Writing|, |Babylonian| |Administrative| |Text,| |Cuneiform| |Clay| |Tablet,| |Ur| |III| |Period,| |2100| |-| |2000| |B.C.|, The text gives amounts of barley for named individuals.

Some tablets were fired to harden them. Most were considered temporary and never fired. Many ancient tablets, perhaps including this one, were hardend unintentionally when the building they were stored in burned. Unintentional firing has preserved many tablets that would have been otherwise lost.

When we first received this tablet, the bottom third appeared to be intact, however, it was a forged restoration, the cuniform was nonsense.
AAA30982. height 4.9 cm (1 3/4"), width 4.2 cm (1 5/8"), 2/3 of tablet, dark black, hardened; SOLD










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