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Cuneiform tablets.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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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.