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Tablet

Classification/Broad: Writing

Classification/Specific: Tablet

Material/Broad: Clay

Material/Specific: Clay, Baked

Measurements: H. 6.0, W. 4.4, Th. 2.1 cm.

Description: Poorly preserved tablet inscribed with a record of barley flour expended for unknown purposes. Contra Yang, the script looks certainly Ur III rather than OB. The obverse is damaged and the reverse is almost completely destroyed. No personal names can be readily identified. Part of a month name is preserved on the last line of the reverse: iti še-K[IN?-ku5), a month compatible with an Adab provenience, but which was also used elsewhere. Excavated at Adab by Banks according to Oriental Institute records, but there are no internal criteria by which this provenience can be confirmed. Because other tablets alleged to be from Adab can be determined to have come from other sites, it is impossible to be certain if this tablet really comes from that place.


Region: Wasit governorate

Country: Iraq

Place/site: Bismaya

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Period: Ur III

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Inscribed: Yes

Inscription Sequence Number: 1

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Inscription Description: YES

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Registration Number: A710

Accession Number: 83

Field Number: H 252

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