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Maker unknown :[Three Sumerian clay tablets with cuneiform inscriptions. Between 2250 and 2100 B. C.]
- By
- Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967
- Reference
- Curios-007-001
- Description
Small clay tablets with cuneiform inscriptions. Two of them date back to 2100 B.C., and one to 2250 B. C. (Curios-007-001-1). All are from the Sumerian civilisation
Quantity: 3 curio(s).
Physical Description: Clay tablets, ca 45 x 35 x 11 mm (irregular)
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Although the negative number 1/2-C-024594 was assigned to this group, no negative was actually taken. The negative number appears on the colour transparency, hence its inclusion above to enable a search to be made on the number
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 3 curio(s), Curios, Clay tablets, ca 45 x 35 x 11 mm (irregular)
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Maker unknown :[Sumerian clay tablet with cuneiform inscription, ca 2100 B. C.]
From: Maker unknown :[Three Sumerian clay tablets with cuneiform inscriptions. Between 2250 and 2100 B. C.]
By: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967
Reference: Curios-007-001-3
Description: Small clay tablet with cuneiform inscriptions, from the Sumerian civilisation and dating from 2100 B. C. One of two tablets donated by Mr Hewitt per Mr Ken Webster, 1956. One tablet is a record of three deliveries of leather bags to the palace. The other concerns the charge for hiring a boat and its crew to carry reeds upstream from the city of Umma to the city of Nippur, a distance of some 50 miles. It is not known which inscription is on which tablet. Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Clay tablet, 29 x 30 x 15 mm (irregular) Provenance: Donation: Mr Hewitt of England per Mr K. A. Webster, London, 1956 (with two other clay tablets, also located at Curios-007-001, and with the gypsum slab located at Curios-032-009)
Maker unknown :[Sumerian clay tablet with cuneiform inscription, ca 2100 B. C.]
From: Maker unknown :[Three Sumerian clay tablets with cuneiform inscriptions. Between 2250 and 2100 B. C.]
By: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967
Reference: Curios-007-001-2
Description: Small clay tablet with cuneiform inscriptions, from the Sumerian civilisation and dating from 2100 B. C. One of two tablets donated by Mr Hewitt per Mr Ken Webster, 1956. One tablet is a record of three deliveries of leather bags to the palace. The other concerns the charge for hiring a boat and its crew to carry reeds upstream from the city of Umma to the city of Nippur, a distance of some 50 miles. It is not known which inscription is on which tablet. Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Clay tablet, 36 x 37 x 11 mm (irregular) Provenance: Donation: Mr Hewitt of England per Mr K. A. Webster, London, 1956 (with two other clay tablets, also located at Curios-007-001, and with the gypsum slab located at Curios-032-009)
Maker unknown :[Sumerian clay tablet with cuneiform inscription, ca 2250 B. C.]
From: Maker unknown :[Three Sumerian clay tablets with cuneiform inscriptions. Between 2250 and 2100 B. C.]
Reference: Curios-007-001-1
Description: Small clay tablet with cuneiform inscriptions, from the Sumerian civilisation, dating from 2250 B. C. The inscription concerns grain, with mention of the field of the shepherds and the temple of the goddess Shara and of a certain Shubati, dated in the year that Simurrum was laid waste for the third time, i.e. third Dynasty of Ur, about 2250 B. C. ATL purchase book for 20 December 1951 to 4 August 1966 records the entry of the cuneiform tablet (ca. 2250 BC): purchased for GBP 94 from 'von Scherling, Rotulus'. This is Erik Edzard Floris Folkard von Scherling (1907-1956), younger son of a Swedish Consul at Rotterdam who learned the book dealing trade in Leiden where he also set up shop. His catalogues from 1931 were issued under the title 'Rotulus'. Description is from Rotulus, Vol 7 no. 2515 Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Clay tablet, 45 x 36 x 11 mm (irregular)