Cuneiform Tablet, ca. 2054 BCE

  • Sumerian, Mesopotamian

Unbaked clay

  • Overall: 2 7/16 × 1 7/16 × 11/16 inches (6.2 × 3.7 × 1.7 cm)

Gift of Henry G. Stevens

19.24.11

Department

Ancient Near Eastern Art

Prof. Albert Clay, Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, USA)

purchased by Henry Glover Stevens (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1919-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Liu, Changyu. "Twenty-Three Ur III Texts from Detroit Institute of Arts," Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, vol. 98, no. 2 (Autumn 2022): pp. 1-47; pp. 3-4 no. 1, p. 27 (ill.) [titled Archive of Ŝulgi-simti].

Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Cuneiform Tablet, ca. 2054 BCE, unbaked clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Henry G. Stevens, 19.24.11.