COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Cuneiform tablets (tablets made of clay, stone, metal, or wax, and inscribed with a wedge-shaped stylus) from the Old Babylonian period in ancient Mesopotamia, roughly the site of modern Iraq. Most are records of business transactions.
Dates
- circa 2500 B.C.E.
Language of Materials
Collection material in Akkadian
Extent
220 items. (220 items.)
Abstract
Cuneiform tablets (tablets made of clay, stone, metal, or wax, and inscribed with a wedge-shaped stylus) from the Old Babylonian period in ancient Mesopotamia, roughly the site of modern Iraq. Most are records of business transactions.
Existence and Location of Copies
Digital version, with content and publication information, at Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative site
Physical Description
Extent is approximate.
Physical Description
Clay tablets.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- February 2017
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, February 2017
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, February 2017
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- February 2017
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu