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Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
Cuneiform Tablet: Itemized Account of Barley to be Ground?
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Cuneiform Tablet: Itemized Account of Barley to be Ground?

AAT Object Form/Functiontablets (information artifacts)
AAT Object Techniqueinscribing
Place CreatedBabylon, Iraq, Asia
CultureSumerian
PeriodThird Dynasty of Ur
Date2100-2000 BCE
MediumClay
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Dimensions3 1/4 x 2 1/16 in. (8.3 x 5.2 cm)
Object number1921.241
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2001 - 2005
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
Not on view
Collections
  • Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art