© Michael C. Carlos Museun, Emory University

ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Cuneiform Tablet with Seal Impression with Record of Work Loading Ships

AAT Object Form/Functioncuneiform

AAT Object Form/FunctionWriting Tablet (Information Artifacts)

AAT Object Form/FunctionInvoices

Place CreatedAsia

CultureSumerian

PeriodThird Dynasty of Ur, Year 1 of Amar-Sin

Dateca. 2046 BCE

MediumClay

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Dimensions2 1/2 x 1 7/8 in. (6.4 x 4.8 cm)

Object number1921.245

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - Spring 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2001-February 12, 2018
Michael C. Carlos Museum Morgens West Foundation Galleries of Ancient Near Eastern Art, November 10, 2018 - Present
Published ReferencesDaniel C. Snell, "The Ur III Tablets in the Emory University Museum," Acta Sumerologica 9 (June 1987): 203-75.

ProvenancePurchased for Emory University Museum by William Shelton (1875-1959) from Albert T. Clay (1866-1925) [Yale Babylonian Collection], New Haven, Connecticut, 1921. At Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, ca. 1950-1955.

Status

On view

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