tablet
- Museum number
- 140852
- Description
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Clay tablet; symbol of a human head with a triangular object in front of it; typical of texts dealing with rations; in later Sumerian it is the verb to eat; the triangular object is the regular symbol for bread; three different types of numerical symbol are used.
- Production date
- 3300BC-3100BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 4.50 centimetres
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Weight: 705 grammes
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Thickness: 1.60 centimetres
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Width: 7.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The symbol of a human head with a triangular object in front of it is typical of texts dealing with rations. In later Sumerian it is the verb ‘to eat’. The triangular object is the regular symbol for bread. Three different types of numerical symbol are used.
- Location
- On display (G56/dc3)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1990 15 May-29 Jul, Germany, Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Frühe Schrift und Techiken der Wirtschaftsverwaltung im alten Vorderen Orient
- Acquisition date
- 1989
- Acquisition notes
- £10,000 was donated by the British Museum Society, £32,312.50 was provided by the Research Fund. Christies lot number 11.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 140852
- Registration number
- 1989,0130.1
