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ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Cuneiform Tablet: Sheep

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

Dimensions7/8 x 13/16 in. (2.2 x 2.1 cm)

Object number1921.274

Exhibition HistoryMCCM 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.

Status

Not on view

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