Cuneiform Tag, Label for container with documents of Šarakam, the šabra administrator.
Ur Dynasty
Drehem
Mesopotamia
not dated
Terracotta
Overall: 14 15/16 × 15 3/4 in. (38 × 40 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of The Dartmouth Scientific Association
23.1.7181
Geography
Place Made: Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, West Asia, Asia
Period
3000-2000 BCE
Object Name
Written Communication
Research Area
Near East
Not on view
Course History
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
Publication History
Benjamin R. Foster, Yale University, "Texts and Fragments," Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 31, No.4, 1979, p. 237.
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.
Provenance
Dartmouth Scientific Association; given to present collection, 1923.
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