A SUMERIAN CLAY CUNEIFORM TABLET

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Lot 45 | A SUMERIAN CLAY CUNEIFORM TABLET
A SUMERIAN CLAY CUNEIFORM TABLET

PUZRIŠ-DAGAN, THIRD DYNASTY OF UR, REIGN OF SHU-SIN, CIRCA 2035 B.C.

3 1⁄4 in. (8.5 cm.) long







Provenance

Thomas Barlow Walker (1840-1928), Minneapolis; thence by bequest to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (Inv. no. W37).

Antiquities and Oriental Art: The Thomas Barlow Walker Collection, Sold for the Benefit of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 26-28 September 1972.

Acquired by the current owner, U.S., by 1984.





Literature

T.B. Jones and J.W. Snyder, Sumerian Economic Texts from the Third Ur Dynasty: A Catalogue and Discussion of Documents from Various Collections, Minneapolis, 1961, p. 68, no. 107.

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Database no. P129517.
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