cuneiform tablet

• Original object type: Artefact

Description

1of 6 Babylonian tables described in a letter from the British Museum to the collector Mr James Ogden.

Inscription on both sides with damage to the top.

Label enclosed reads: "893./ A long list of various commodities made by a storekeeper. It begins with quantities of fodder and of different kinds of beer, which are summarised. The remainder if concerned with amounts shewn upon the tablets of individual recipients, whose names are given after the quantities recieved by each. The commodities dealt with are principally beer of different qualities, but also barley, feeding-stuff, and flour, the amounts of which are again totalled at the end. Dated in the 26th year of Shulgi (?), King of Ur, about 2200."

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative number P362895.

• Date range: c.2200 BCE
• Date: 2250
• Keywords: Classics
• Collection: ["collections_typename__" not defined]
• Physical Identifier: OBJ 2/1