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$1200-1300 est.
Auction 37 / Lot #204:
An Early Cuneiform Clay Tablet

The tablet records laconically a very large amount of barley (36,000 liter?). assigned as "food for the god Enlil" (i.e., for his temple at Nippur?).

Period: Old Sumerian, c. 2600-2500 BC
Dimensions: 5.2x5.1cm
Condition: Very good; small fragment glued


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