Tablet with Cattle Transaction
Clay
Bismaya (Adab)
9.9 cm x 5.0 cm x 2.0 cm
A651
Oriental Institute Museum
Tablet with Cattle Transaction
The cuneiform script, like our own alphabet, was used to write many different languages. This cuneiform tablet, written in Akkadian, concerns a transaction involving cattle. Archaeologists have found many such tablets recording the sale or purchase of animals.
Collected by
Oriental Exploration Fund, University of Chicago
Excavated by The Oriental Institute 1903-1904
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Suggested Readings
Claiborne, Robert. The Birth of Writing. The Emergence of Man series. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1974.
Roaf, Michael. Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. New York: Facts on File, 1990.
Walker, C.B.F. Cuneiform: Reading the Past. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
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