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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Cuneiform Tablet of Contract for Baked Bricks with Three Witnesses

AAT Object Form/FunctionCuneiform
AAT Object Form/FunctionWriting Tablet (information artifacts)
AAT Object Form/Functionreceipts (financial records)
Place CreatedUruk, Iraq, Asia
CultureBabylonian
PeriodNeo-Babylonian Period, Reign of Nabonidus
Date555-539 BCE
MediumClay
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Dimensions1 11/16 x 1 5/16 in. (4.3 x 3.4 cm)
Object number1921.302
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - Spring 2001
Michael C. Carlos Museum Morgens West Foundation Galleries of Ancient Near Eastern Art, November 10, 2018 - Present
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
Collections
  • Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art