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

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. 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.