The Ur III period is noted by Assyriologists and ancient historians for vast amount of surviving administrative and economic documents preserved on clay tablets. Most of the tablets were quite small and consists of 10-20 lines of text, recording receipts and disbursements of resources or labour. Due to the considerable amount of administrative texts which allowed scholars to reconstruct daily life of the Ur III period, the period is often considered a model of the early developments of bureaucracy and state control.
Large UR III Administrative Tablet
£ 295.00
An administrative cuneiform tablet fragment from the UR III period. Cuneiform scripts have been incised on the obverse describing lists of fields and amounts of barley. The reverse and sides are uneven and unadorned.
Provenance: Ex London dealer collection, acquired 1980s-2000s.
Condition: Fine condition, fragmentary
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| Weight | 124.2 g |
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| Dimensions | L 6.6 x W 6.8 cm |
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