Cuneiform tablet: administrative account concerning the distribution of barley and emmer

c. 3100–2900 BC · Sumer

Cuneiform tablet: administrative account concerning the distribution of barley and emmer, from Sumer, dated c. 3100–2900 BC. It was found at Uruk. Today it is kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Date

c. 3100–2900 BC

Civilization

Sumer

Found at

Uruk

Where it is today

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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