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Late Ur III Pottery Cuneiform Biscuit - Translated

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Late Ur III Pottery Cuneiform Biscuit - Translated

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Ancient Near East, Late Ur III period or Isin Dynasty, ca. late 3rd millennium to early 2nd millennium BCE. A ceramic cuneiform "biscuit", translated. The translation is included with the item. In summary it is a list of witnesses with a partial date. The witnesses indicate that this is an administrative receipt from a contract or from a legal case. Size: 1.9" W x 1.95" H (4.8 cm x 5 cm)

Cuneiform script is one of the oldest known writing systems in the world, made using a reed as a stylus and scratching wedge-shaped marks onto clay tablets. Early cuneiform was pictographic, but in the 3rd millennium BCE it shifted to the more abstract form you see here. These cuneiform tablets are some of the roughly 2 million known from this culture; of these, between 30,000 and 100,000 have been translated. The earliest translations came in 1836 from the work of French scholar Eugene Burnouf and by the 1850s multiple scholars were able to produce similar translations, meaning the language had been deciphered.

Provenance: private Texas, USA collection

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Condition

One side is unreadable due to ancient damage and has a small area of remaining adhesive from a previous repair. The other side is fairly readable, with light encrustation in the lower profile areas.

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Late Ur III Pottery Cuneiform Biscuit - Translated

Name: Late Ur III Pottery Cuneiform Biscuit - Translated
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Price: 725 USD
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