Cuneiform Tablet
Unidentified Babylonian maker
Mesopotamia
circa 2350 BCE
Terracotta
Overall: 1 1/2 × 1 7/16 in. (3.8 × 3.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
23.2.7216
Geography
Place Made: Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, West Asia, Asia
Period
3000-2000 BCE
Object Name
Written Communication
Research Area
Near East
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Edgar James Banks (1866-1945), about 1898-1921 [purchase arranged through Professor W. H. (William Hamilton) Wood (1874-1953), Class of 1917H, Professor of Biblical History and Literature]; sold to present collection, 1923.
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