Cuneiform tablets, circa 2500 B.C.E.
Collection Number: 6906
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Cuneiform tablets, circa 2500 B.C.E.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
6906
Abstract:
Cuneiform tablets (tablets made of clay, stone, metal, or wax, and inscribed with
a wedge-shaped stylus) from the Old Babylonian period in ancient Mesopotamia, roughly
the site of modern Iraq. Most are records of business transactions.
Creator:
Quanitities:
220 items.
Language:
Collection material in Akkadian
Cuneiform tablets (tablets made of clay, stone, metal, or wax, and inscribed with
a wedge-shaped stylus) from the Old Babylonian period in ancient Mesopotamia, roughly
the site of modern Iraq. Most are records of business transactions.
Digital version, with content and publication information, at Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative site
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Cuneiform Tablets, #6906. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Library.
Access restricted to the permission of the curator.
Subjects:
Sumerians -- Economic conditions.
Akkadian language -- Texts.
Cuneiform inscriptions.
Cuneiform tablets.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 |
Tablets 1-3, 5-11, 12d-15
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Box 2 |
Tablets 16-27, 29-30
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Box 14 |
Tablet 28
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Box 3 |
Tablets 31-51
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Box 4 |
Tablets 52-57, 59-70
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Box 5 |
Tablets 71-89, 91-93, 94-96
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Box 6 |
Tablets 98-103, 105-127
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Box 7 |
Tablets 128-154
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Box 8 |
Tablets 155-182
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Box 9 |
Tablets 183-196, 198
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Box 10 |
Display box: tablets 4, 12, 12a, 58, 90, 97, 104
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Box 11 |
Tablets 199-207
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Scope and Contents
203: Clay bulla, Sumerian, circa 1861-1837 BCE
204: Personal names and summary, large hole in back, Old Babylonian, circa 1900-1700
BCE
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Box 12 |
Tablets 208-217
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Scope and Contents
208: Scribal exercise, Old Babylonian, possibly from Nippur, circa 2000-1600 BCE
209: Mathematical text, Old Babylonian, circa 2000-1720 BCE
213: Literary text, Sumerian, 1900-1700 BCE
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Box 13 |
Tablets 218-219
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Scope and Contents
218: from Jokha, temple record, circa 2200 BCE
219: from Drehem, temple record, circa 2200 BCE
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