ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Tablet with Proto-Cuneiform Administrative Text

Place CreatedAsia

CultureSumerian

Periodlate Uruk Period

Dateca. 3200 BCE

MediumClay

Credit LineGift of James E. and Elizabeth J. Ferrell

Dimensions2 5/16 x 2 5/16 x 1 1/8 in. (5.8 x 5.8 x 2.8 cm)

Object number2012.044.008

Exhibition HistoryMichael C. Carlos Museum Morgens West Foundation Galleries of Ancient Near Eastern Art, November 10, 2018 - Present
Published ReferencesSalvatore F. Monaco, "Archaic Cuneiform Tablets from Private Collections," Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology 31 (2016), 187, no. 190.

ProvenanceEx coll. James and Elizabeth Ferrell, United States, purchased March 2003.

Status

On view

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