Cuneiform tablet
This is an ancient Mesopotamian document which accounts for standardised rations issued to messengers passing through major centres on official business. It describes issues of oil, beer, bread, spicy seed, fish and onions.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 50/1948/17E
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Western Asia (Middle East and Near East)
- Collector Excavator
- Tabor, E., Major
- Material
- ceramic
- Common Name
- cuneiform tablet
- Simple Name
- tablet
- Production Year Low
- -2046
- Production Year High
- -2029
