Cuneiform Tablet

Unidentified Babylonian maker
Mesopotamia

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circa 2350 BCE

Terracotta

Overall: 1 5/16 × 1 1/8 in. (3.3 × 2.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

23.2.7211

Geography

Place Made: Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, West Asia, Asia

Period

3000-2000 BCE

Object Name

Written Communication

Research Area

Near East

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Edgar James Banks (1866-1945), about 1898-1921 [purchase arranged through Professor W. H. (William Hamilton) Wood (1874-1953), Class of 1917H, Professor of Biblical History and Literature]; sold to present collection, 1923.

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