Print of Proto-Cuneiform Tablet
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Framed Print of Tablet listing quantities of various commodities, with circles
AMQ113702 Tablet listing quantities of various commodities, with circles and half circles indicating numerals, proto-cuneiform, Jemdet Nasr, Iraq 3000 BC (clay) by Sumerian; height:11 cm; Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK; (add.info.: recto, for verso see 113701
This clay tablet is one of over a hundred similar examples found at the site of Jemder Nasr in Iraq. They represent some of the earliest writing in the world (slightly more archaic texts are known from Uruk to the south of Jemdet Nasr). All the tablets list quantities of various commodities using an early form of the cuneiform (wedge-like) script which was employed later to record Sumerian and other languages of Mesopotamia; circles and half circles indicate numerals. The signs in the bottom left register include a human head in profile and a bowl, the combined meaning of which is ration. Such early tablets were used for administrative purposes to record the storage and distribution of goods, animals and people. It would take another five hundred years and developments in the script, as well as changes in society, before writing was used to record literature and poetry.
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Mesopotamian Tablets , Cuneiform Script History , Early Writing Systems , Proto-cuneiform Writing , Sumerian Commerce , Ancient Middle Eastern Trade , Jemdet Nasr Artifacts , Mesopotamian Commodities List , Clay Tablet Inventory Management , Mesopotamia Mercantilism , Sumerian Trade Records , Ancient Middle Eastern Commerce , Mesopotamian Commodity Lists , Middle Eastern Mercantilism
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