Cuneiform Tablet

Unidentified Babylonian maker
Mesopotamia

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Terracotta

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

23.2.7211

Geography

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

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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