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Cuneiform Tablet
ca. 2000 BCEUr III (ca. 2100-2000 BCE)
Object Type:
Ceramics
Medium and Support:
Clay
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Gordon Thompson in memory of his father, William G. Thompson, D.D., a student of Babylonian archaeology
Accession Number:
1954.58.1
Location: Not currently on view
Ur III, Umma SS 2 iii; Messenger tablet
as per Marcel Sigrist, "Documents from Tablet Collections in Rochester New York," 1991
as per Marcel Sigrist, "Documents from Tablet Collections in Rochester New York," 1991
Provenance
John Deneley Prince; his gift to Columbia University; Gordon Thompson; his gift to the Gallery in 1954
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This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Scope: Entry. Marcel Sigrist. Documents from Tablet Collections in Rochester New York. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press
- Article Title: P111790. Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Los Angeles, CA: University of California at Los Angeles, 2011.
- Article Author: Vanderburgh, Frederick A.. Article Title: Three Babylonian Tablets, Prince Collection, Columbia University. Article Scope: Mention. Journal of the American Oriental Society. New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society Page Number: 24-32
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Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
An international catalogue of cuneiform tablets, compiled by scholars at UCLA and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. MAG's cuneiforms were examined by a scholar in the summer of 2011.