Cuneiform envelope and tablet
This is an ancient Mesopotamian clay envelope with a clay tablet still sealed inside. It lists animals to be sacrificed for the deities Shara and Gula, from the city ruler Akalla. The envelope is sealed by Ninmarki, the cupbearer official.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 86/1966/T7
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Western Asia (Middle East and Near East)
- Collector Excavator
- Corkill, N.L., Dr
- Material
- ceramic
- Common Name
- cuneiform envelope and tablet
- Simple Name
- tablet
- Inscription Transcription
- One best barley-fed ox, two barley-fed sheep. Two sheep, two lambs, (for Shara); One best barley-fed ox, two barley-fed sheep, two sheep, two lambs, (for) Gula; offerings (on behalf of ) the king from Akalla, governor of Umma; sealed by Nin- MAR.KI-ka the 'libator'. Month of the barley harvest, year after (the year in which) Simanum was destroyed.
- Production Date
- -2034
