Fake cuneiform tablet
Fakes of ancient objects are made in historic places across the world for tourists and unsuspecting collectors. The person who donated this cuneiform tablet to the museum believed it to be a genuine artefact from Babylon in Mesopotamia. It is actually a modern replica which had been broken to make it appear more ancient than it seemed.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 7/1932/2
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Western Asia (Middle East and Near East)
- Collector Excavator
- Johnson, GL, capt
- Material
- ceramic
- Common Name
- fake cuneiform tablet
- Simple Name
- tablet
- Period Classification
- Edwardian (1901-1914); World War I (1914-1918); Inter War (1918-1939)
