Title
Cuneiform clay tablet.
Date
[ca. 1900–1700 BCE].
Description
This tablet bears on three of its faces the characteristically wedge-shaped Cuneiform writing system first developed by the Sumerians. The text is difficult to make out, however, as the tablet was broken and glued back together at some point in its history. It was recently identified as an Ur III period administrative tablet by Amanda K. Sprochi, an RBS alumna who is a cataloger at the University of Missouri and who has a background in Near Eastern Studies.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School