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CUNEIFORM TABLET 11 lines preserved, in Sumerian. Account of a large quantity of wool, weighing over 700 mines, and a batch of animal sinews. Dated but not preserved. Clay. 34 x 40 mm. Note in black ink "L38". Sumer, Third Dynasty of Ur, c. 2100-2000 B.C. A Sumerian cuneiform tablet. Administrative Tablet. 11 lines preserved, in Sumerian. Account of a large amount of wool, over 700 minas in weight, and one consignment of animal sinews. Dated not preserved. Third Dynasty of Ur, c. 2100-2000 BCE Provenance Charles Ede, London, Writing and Lettering in Antiquity V (1976) no. 11. Rassla Foundation, Zurich

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CUNEIFORM TABLET 11 lines preserved, in Sumerian. Account of a large quantity of wool, weighing over 700 mines, and a batch of animal sinews. Dated but not preserved. Clay. 34 x 40 mm. Note in black ink "L38". Sumer, Third Dynasty of Ur, c. 2100-2000 B.C. A Sumerian cuneiform tablet. Administrative Tablet. 11 lines preserved, in Sumerian. Account of a large amount of wool, over 700 minas in weight, and one consignment of animal sinews. Dated not preserved. Third Dynasty of Ur, c. 2100-2000 BCE Provenance Charles Ede, London, Writing and Lettering in Antiquity V (1976) no. 11. Rassla Foundation, Zurich

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