Cuneiform tablet: account of expenditures, record of deliveries of animals for the festival of sowing seed

c. 2043 BC · Sumer

Cuneiform tablet: account of expenditures, record of deliveries of animals for the festival of sowing seed, from Sumer, dated c. 2043 BC. Today it is kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Date

c. 2043 BC

Civilization

Sumer

Where it is today

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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