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Catalog Date
  • 2010-03-19
  • 2010-04-23
Catalog Type Archaeology
Collection Badè Museum Cuneiform Tablets
Conservation Condition Good
Conservation Notes Originally broken diagonally from obv lower third to rev upper third; subsequently rejoined and glued. Glue is visible along the fracture line. Overwashed with lacquer-like substance to make signs more visible and give the tablet a "finished" look.
Cultural Period Ur III
Diameter (cm) 0.0
Dimension Notes height taken at center of tablet
Early Date (BCE) 2037
Category Type Ceramic
Height (cm) 2.2
Primary Location Holbrook Hall, Pacific School of Religion
Late Date (BCE) 2029
Length (cm) 9.2
Material Ceramic
Object Name Inscribed Tablet
Old Museum ID 5
Object Sub-category Ceramic -- Other
Publication Notes Landsberger, Benno. 1967. The Date Palm and Its By-Products According to the Cuneiform Sources. Archiv fur Orientforschung, Beiheft 17, Graz. Snell, Daniel C. 1989. "The Lager Texts: Transliterations, Translations and Notes." Acta Sumerologica Japonica 11: 163-174, No. 92.
Subjects and Themes Writing Agriculture
Decoration Inscribed
Excav. Ceramic Serial # 0
Completeness Whole
Manufacture Handmade
Weight (g) 133.5
Width (cm) 4.9
Provenience Certainty Site certain
CDLI Link http://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P405498
CDLI Ark Identifier 21198/zz0021bxkt
Catalogued by Catherine Foster
Collector William Frederic Badè
Condition Examined by Catherine Foster
Container Tablets
Dating method king name
Site Umma province
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Vocabulary: DCMI Metadata Terms (Dublin Core Terms) 		Aaron Brody info
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Suggested Citation

Aaron Brody. (2013) "B2010.1.61 from Asia/Iraq/Umma/Unknown context". In Bade Museum. Aaron Brody (Ed). Released: 2013-09-27. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/1bcbf125-0afb-40a5-ab42-49bf6e2df725> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k21263f7b

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