About the Artwork
Student's Cuneiform Tablet with Names Beginning with "King"
ca. 1800 BCE
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Mesopotamian
Sumerian
Clay
Overall (diam. x depth): 3 1/2 inches × 1 inches (8.9 × 2.5 cm)
Inscription
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Gift of Henry G. Stevens
19.24.20
This work is in the 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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Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 1, no. 1 (1919): pp.11, 12.
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Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Student's Cuneiform Tablet with Names Beginning with "King", ca. 1800 BCE, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Henry G. Stevens, 19.24.20.
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