© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University

ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Cuneiform Tablet: Sheep Taken, Puzris-Dagan

Place CreatedBabylon, Iraq, Asia

CultureSumerian

PeriodThird Dynasty of Ur

Date2100-2000 BCE

MediumClay

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Dimensions1 1/4 x 1 1/8 in. (3.2 x 2.8 cm)

Object number1921.216

Exhibition HistoryFrom Letters to Littrisme, Georgia Southern University Museum, February 4 - April 16, 2000
Cultural Sensations: Africa, Coca-Cola Company Headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia, April 21 - June 20, 2003
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. With Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, ca. 1950-1955.

Status

Not on view

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