tablet;
seal-impression
- Museum number
- 120486
- Description
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Proto-Elamite clay tablet with five characters on one side and rest of space occupied with a fine seal impression.
- Production date
- 3000BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 4 centimetres
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Length: 5.80 centimetres
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- Location
- On display (G52/dc1)
- Acquisition date
- 1928
- Acquisition notes
- Report to Trustees, 2 October 1928: "an interesting collection of Persian antiquities of the early Bronze Age, comprising .... 6) A clay tablet from Susa, date about 3000 BC, with short inscription in the 'proto-Elamite' writing, which has not yet been deciphered. Half of the obverse and all of the reverse are occupied by the double impression of a very fine Elamitic [sic] seal, showing grotesque goat-men, with head and hindquarters of a goat and human trunk: a heart-shaped leaf, or conifer, stands between them. This is a fine example of a class of tablet not hitherto represented at all in the collection: it will be the first acquisition of its kind".
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 120486
- Registration number
- 1928,1013.6