Tablet with calculation and addition of the areas of five fields

Details

• Title

  Tablet with calculation and addition of the areas of five fields

• Associated place

  Asia › Iraq › Jemdet Nasr (place of excavation)

• Date

  3200 - 2900 BC

• Material and technique

  clay

• Object type

  communications equipment › tablet

• Dimensions

  5.2 cm (height)
  8.4 cm (length)
  1.5 cm (width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

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

• Museum location

  Lower ground floor | Gallery 6 | Reading and Writing

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1926.583

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