Cuneiform Tablet, Wool from the store house added to the "debits" of the official Ea.
Unidentified Babylonian maker
Mesopotamia
circa 2800 BCE
Terracotta
Overall: 16 1/8 × 14 3/16 in. (41 × 36 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
23.2.7218
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
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. 49.
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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