Cuneiform Tablet (legal document)
Unidentified Babylonian maker
Mesopotamia
528-521 BCE
Overall: 2 1/2 × 4 5/16 in. (6.4 × 11 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Milton S. Yondorf, Class of 1944P
43.5.8873
Geography
Place Made: Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, West Asia, Asia
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Written Communication
Research Area
Near East
Not on view
Provenance
Milton S. Yondorf, Chicago, Illinois; given to present collection, 1943.
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