© 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 1/8 x 1 in. (2.9 x 2.6 cm)

Object number1921.250

Exhibition HistoryAcross the Millennia: Antiques from the Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, Southern Bell Center, Atlanta, Georgia, January 6 - February 29, 1988
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.

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Not on view

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