Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Babylon, Old Babylonian period, ca. early 2nd millennium BCE. A clay tablet of a rectangular form containing 12 to 13 lines of cuneiform text. Cuneiform is one of the world's oldest systems of structured writing and is impressed into the still-wet clay with a sharpened reed or stick just before being placed inside a kiln. Inscribed clay tablets like this example offer us a glimpse at what those in the past regarded as important or what messages they wished to communicate. Size: 4.25" L x 3" W x 2.5" H (10.8 cm x 7.6 cm x 6.4 cm)

Provenance: private Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA collection, via inheritance; Leota Furlong Agett Persian Pottery collection, acquired in Tehran, Iran in the early 1960s

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#175676

Fragment of a larger piece as shown with old losses. Chips and abrasions to script face. Softening to impressed script but still discernable.