Tablet with a cuneiform inscription: Receipt of silver
General region:Asia
Culture: Neo-Sumerian
Period: Ur III
Date: ca. 2035-2027 B.C.
Medium: Clay
Dimensions:
1 1/2 × 1 1/4 × 1/2 in. (3.8 × 3.3 × 1.3 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of the family in memory of Minna Edwards Cook
Object number: 89.5.1
Inscribed: Inscribed in Sumerian:
Obverse:
1 silver shekel: wool of mountain [sheep];
silver of Agalzig.
1/2 a silver shekel: wool of [a sheep];
silver of Lugal-niglagaré,
of Ursag-kidug,
Reverse:
Ahum
received.
Year following [the year when] Shu-Sin [began to be] king."
[trans. after J. García Recio, ed., Textos Cuneiformes de Texas.]
Provenance: with Minna Edwards Cook (1901-1988), San Antonio, by 1988; gift of her estate to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1989
Published References
J. García Recio, ed., Textos Cuneiformes de Texas. San Antonio Museum of Art. (León and Estella, Spain: Instituto Bíblico y Oriental and Verbo Divino, 2021), 78-79, no. 23.
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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