tablet
- Museum number
- 140853
- Description
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Clay tablet; record of barley; barley appears four times on this tablet represented by a single stalk with ears at the top; three different types of numerical symbol are used.
- Production date
- 3300BC-3100BC
- Dimensions
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Length: 8 centimetres
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Width: 5 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- On display (G56/dc3)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1999, London, BM, 'Cracking Codes'
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 12.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 140853
- Registration number
- 1989,0130.2
