Cuneiform inscriptions.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Bruce Ferrini paleography collection
Collection
Identifier: 4671
Abstract
Examples of various historical writing systems and scripts, including hieroglyphics on fragments of papyrus, reed sticks with proto-Arabian inscriptions, cuneiform tablets, a bowl inscribed in Etruscan, Aramaic incantation bowls, a bronze piece with a runic inscription, Arabic on cloth fragments, decorated 13th-century Bible leaves, and other writings through the 18th century.
Dates:
circa 4000 B.C.-1800.
Cuneiform tablets
Collection
Identifier: 6906
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.
Dates:
circa 2500 B.C.E.