Cuneiform Tablet with Receipt for Grain and Envelope, 2050 BCE

  • Sumerian, Mesopotamian

Sun-dried clay

  • Overall (with mount): 4 3/8 × 4 1/8 × 2 inches (11.1 × 10.5 × 5.1 cm)

Gift of Henry G. Stevens

19.24.27

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)

Meerchyad, Lina. "Ancient Mesopotamian Seals in the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts," Bulletin of the DIA 90, no. 1/4 (2016): p. 61 (fig. 4). 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. 6-7 no. 4, p. 30 (ill.) [titled Receipt of Barley].

Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Cuneiform Tablet with Receipt for Grain and Envelope, 2050 BCE, sun-dried clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Henry G. Stevens, 19.24.27.