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)
Cuneiform Tablet Recording Payment of One Ox, ca. 2050 BCE
- Sumerian, Mesopotamian
Clay
- Overall: 1 1/16 × 1 × 9/16 inches (2.7 × 2.5 × 1.4 cm)
Gift of Henry G. Stevens
19.24.13
On View
- Ancient Middle East Gallery
Department
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Details
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. 8-9 no. 6, p. 31 (ill.) [titled Withdrawl of Livestock].
Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Cuneiform Tablet Recording Payment of One Ox, ca. 2050 BCE, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Henry G. Stevens, 19.24.13.
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