Cuneiform Tablet, Large and small livestock from various individuals across the state as a muku delivery.

Inscriptions

Incised, obverse, in cuneiform [translation]: “3 oxen, 2 cows, / 22 sheep, 9 lamps, / 6 goats, 20 she-goats (and) / 1 ewe, dead. / From: Nir-i3-da-gal2, / via: Ar-ši-ah, the royal guard. / 1 ox (and) 13 fat-tailed sheep:” Incised, reverse, in cuneiform [translation]: “I-la-a, the Amorite. / 1 grain-fed lamb: the governor of … / 1 young gazelle: the wife of Nam-zi-tar-ra. / 1 grain-fed sheep (and) 1 grain-fed lamb: / Arad2-mu / ------- / mu-DU delivery (in) the month: A2-ki-ti. (vi) / The year (when) the city of Si-mu-ru-um and the city of Lu-lu-bu were destroyed for the ninth time. (Š 44)” Incised, left edge, in cuneiform [translation]: “Day 13.”

Course History

REL 81, Dickinson Distinguished Scholar Seminar: Orientalism and the Origins of Religion, Susannah Heschel, Fall 2012

ANTH 12.2, The Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Jason Herrmann, Spring 2013

ENGS 2, Integrated Design: Engineering, Architecture, and Building Technology, Jack Wilson, Vicki May, Winter 2015

ENGS 2, Integrated Design: Engineering, Architecture, and Building Technology, Jack Wilson, Vicki May, Winter 2015

ENGS 2, Integrated Design: Engineering, Architecture, and Building Technology, Jack Wilson, Vicki May, Winter 2015

ANTH 39, Archaeology of the Middle East, Jesse Casana, Fall 2019

ANTH 39.01/MES 3.02, Archaeology of the Middle East, Jesse Casana, Spring 2021

Anthropology 39.01, Middle Eastern Studies 3.02, Archaeology of the Middle East, Jesse Casana, Fall 2023

Exhibition History

From Discovery to Dartmouth: The Assyrian Reliefs at the Hood Museum of Art, 1856-2006, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 19, 2006-June 17, 2007.

Publication History

Magnus Widell, From Discovery to Dartmouth: The Assyrian Reliefs at the Hood Museum of Art, 1856-2006, A Selection of Cuneiform Tablets from the Hood Museum of Art's Collection, Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College, 2006, no. 5.

Widell, Magnus, Ur III Economy and Bureaucracy: The Neo-Sumerian Cuneiform Tablets in the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College (I). Orient: Reports of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, 55 (1), 2019, illustration pg. 41.

Provenance

Dartmouth Scientific Association; given to present collection, 1923.

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