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

Cuneiform Tablet with Seal Impression Recording Female Workers for Canal Work

AAT Object Form/FunctionWriting Tablets (Information artifacts)
AAT Object Form/Functioninvoices
AAT Object Form/FunctionCuneiform
Place CreatedBabylon, Iraq, Asia
CultureSumerian
PeriodThird Dynasty of Ur, Year 35 of Shulgi
Dateca. 2060 BCE
MediumClay
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Dimensions1 9/16 x 1 7/16 in. (4 x 3.7 cm)
Object number1921.234
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - Spring 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2001 - February 12, 2018
Michael C. Carlos Museum Morgens West Foundation Galleries of Ancient Near Eastern Art, November 10, 2018 - Present
Published ReferencesDaniel C. Snell, "The Ur III Tablets in the Emory University Museum," Acta Sumerologica 9 (June 1987): 203-75, no. 17, drawing on p. 240.
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