About the Artwork
Sealing with Cuneiform Inscription
2100 - 2000 BCE
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Mesopotamian
Sumerian
Clay
Overall: 1 3/4 × 1 13/16 × 1 3/8 inches (4.4 × 4.6 × 3.5 cm)
Inscription
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Gift of Henry G. Stevens
19.24.5
Public Domain
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Provenance
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)
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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. 12-13 no. 11, p. 35 (ill.) [titled Receipt of Dead Animals].
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Sealing with Cuneiform Inscription, 2100 - 2000 BCE, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Henry G. Stevens, 19.24.5.
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