Cuneiform Tablet (legal document)

Unidentified Babylonian maker
Mesopotamia

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528-521 BCE

Overall: 2 1/2 × 4 5/16 in. (6.4 × 11 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Milton S. Yondorf, Class of 1944P

43.5.8873

Geography

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

Period

1000 BCE-1 CE

Object Name

Written Communication

Research Area

Near East

Not on view

Provenance

Milton S. Yondorf, Chicago, Illinois; given to present collection, 1943.

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