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Cuneiform Tablet Recording Rations for Messengers, ca. 2060 BCE

  • Sumerian, Mesopotamian

Clay

  • various dimensions

Gift of Henry G. Stevens

19.24.16

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. 20-24 no. 20-22, pp. 41-44 (ill.) [seperated out by components, all are titled Messenger Text].

Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Cuneiform Tablet Recording Rations for Messengers, ca. 2060 BCE, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Henry G. Stevens, 19.24.16.