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.

Label enclosed reads: "897./ List of workers, mostly giving mere numbers of gangs with the names of their foremen, but also a few separate categories such as singers (?), men-at-arms, and "shepherds of the temple of the god Shara". Undated: Period of 3rd Dynasty of Ur."

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative number P362897.

• Date range: c.2193–2004 BCE
• Date: 2098
• Keywords: Classics
• Collection: ["collections_typename__" not defined]
• Physical Identifier: OBJ 2/3