Inscribed clay tablet featuring food rations

Details

• Title

  Inscribed clay tablet featuring food rations

• Associated place

  Asia › Iraq › Jemdet Nasr (place of excavation)

• Date

  c. 3000 BC

• Material and technique

  clay

• Object type

  communications equipment › tablet

• Dimensions

  3.9 x 6.6 x 1.5 cm (height x width x depth)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Allocated by the Oxford Field Museum Expedition to Kish, 1926.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1926.606

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