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Title: Cuneiform tablet: account of expenditures, record of deliveries of animals for the festival of sowing seed
Period: Ur III
Date: ca. 2043 BCE
Geography: Mesopotamia, Drehem (ancient Puzrish-Dagan)
Culture: Neo-Sumerian
Medium: Clay
Dimensions: 11.6 x 6.9 x 2.7 cm (4 5/8 x 2 3/4 x 1 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchase, by exchange, 1911
Object Number: 11.217.29
"Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 8–August 17, 2003.
“Mesopotamia: Great Cultural Innovations, Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea, July 22, 2022–September 29, 2024.
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