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The Kish tablet is a limestone tablet found at the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Kish in modern Tell al-Uhaymir, Babylon Governorate, Iraq.A plaster cast of the tablet is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, while the original is housed at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. [1]
Generally they are called "numerical tablets" or "impressed tablets". They have been mostly found in Susa (75) and Uruk (58) (small numbers in Jemdat Nasr (2), Chogha Mish (1), Tepe Sialk (10), Tutub (1) and Mari (1)) including some that lack later Proto-Elamite and proto-cuneiform tablets, like Tell Brak (1), Habuba Kabira (3), Tepe Hissar ...
Written on a clay tablet measuring 10.7 × 6 × 3.1 cm, [4] it is believed to have been written by a bride of the Sumerian king Shu-Sin, who reigned between 2037 BCE and 2029 BCE. The tablet is on display at the Istanbul Archaeology Museums. [5] Bridegroom, dear to my heart, Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet, Lion, dear to my heart,
Sumerian clay tablet, currently housed in the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, inscribed with the text of the poem Inanna and Ebih by the priestess Enheduanna, the first author whose name is known [8] The Babylonian Plimpton 322 clay tablet, with numbers written in cuneiform script.
The deciphered tablets show we’re not too different from our ancient counterparts. ‘Unusual’ writing on 4,000-year-old tablets decoded as lost language, study says Skip to main content
The complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir (UET V 81) [1] is a clay tablet that was sent to the ancient city-state Ur, written c. 1750 BCE. The tablet, measuring 11.6 cm high and 5 cm wide, documents a transaction in which Ea-nāṣir, [ a ] a trader, allegedly sold sub-standard copper to a customer named Nanni.
The oldest known tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament is expected to fetch up to $2 million when it goes up for auction next month.
Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era city located in present-day Turkey.