Cuneiform Tablet, ca. 2054 BCE

  • Sumerian, Mesopotamian

Unbaked clay

  • Overall: 1 1/4 × 1 3/16 × 5/8 inches (3.2 × 3 × 1.6 cm)

Gift of Henry G. Stevens

19.24.14

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. 14-15 no. 14, p. 37 (ill.) [titled Record on Barley].

Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Cuneiform Tablet, ca. 2054 BCE, unbaked clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Henry G. Stevens, 19.24.14.