Lot 169: Cuneiform Ancient Iraq Tablet

Cuneiform Ancient Iraq Tablet, approx. 1" L, Sumerian language, 3rd Dynasty of Uri 2100-2000 BC, 12th day no year., possibly a receipt for; Fat sheet, Sheep, Goat-dead, site of Drehem (stockyard), other names Nalu, Shulgi.-iri-mu. Provenance: Decended in the Wentworth (Portsmouth Family-see note to Nellie (Ellen Wentworth), photo shown to Chrisso Boulis, University of PA Museaum, US Team now doing Sumarian dictionary.

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