Cuneiform Tablet with Receipt for Eight Bronze Sickles, and Envelope, ca. 2050 BCE

  • Sumerian, Mesopotamian

Clay

  • Overall (in envelope): 1 13/16 × 1 3/4 × 1 inches (4.6 × 4.4 × 2.5 cm)

Gift of Henry G. Stevens

19.24.28

On View

  • Ancient Middle East Gallery
  • Ancient Middle East Gallery

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; p. 5-6 no. 3, pp. 28-29 (ill.) [titled Receipt of Sickle].

Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Cuneiform Tablet with Receipt for Eight Bronze Sickles, and Envelope, ca. 2050 BCE, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Henry G. Stevens, 19.24.28.