SLS 301 Artifact Project

SLS 301 Artifacts Project Assignment # 28

"Clay Tablet and Mesopotamian Cuneiform"

ARTIFACT

Mesopotamian Cuneiform TABLET, with 5-6 lines of script. Terracotta (inv. 84)

STARTUP BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bottero, Jean. Everyday life in ancient Mesopotamia (2001).
Circulation Call number DS 71 .B65 2001
Oppenheim, A. Leo. Letters from Mesopotamia. Official business, and private letters on clay tablets from two millennia (1967).
Circulation Call number DS 71 .O7
Postgate, N, Wang, Tao, and Wilkinson, T. "The Evidence for Early Writing: Utilitarian or Ceremonial?"
Antiquity Sept. 1995; Vol. 69 Issue 264.
Walker, C. B. F. Cuneiform (1987).
Circulation Call number PJ 3193 .W35 1987

Photograph by Peter Finger
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