Cuneiform Tablet, Ur - 3D View

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Mark Cartwright
by MAACambridge
published on 29 October 2018

Clay cuneiform tablet. Note of ten sheep and ten goats taken from flocks in the city of Ur and sent off for delivery by Ur-kununna. Dated in the 5th year of Gimil-Sin, king of Ur, c. 2220 BCE.

(Accession No 1931.271) Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge,

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