© Michael C. Carlos Museun, Emory University

ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Cuneiform Tablet: Cattle Delivery By Various Ensis

AAT Object Techniqueinscribing

AAT Object Form/Functiontablets (information artifacts)

Place CreatedBabylon, Iraq, Asia

CultureSumerian

PeriodThird Dynasty of Ur

Date2100-2000 BCE

MediumClay

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Dimensions1 15/16 x 1 1/2 in. (4.9 x 3.8 cm)

Object number1921.251

Exhibition HistoryAcross the Millennia: Antiques from the Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, Southern Bell Center, Atlanta, Georgia, January 6 - February 29, 1988
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - Spring 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2001-February 12, 2018
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.

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Not on view

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