Sumerian·Book

Position in chronology

~1800 BCE
Ubaid
5500
Uruk
4000
ED
2900
Akkad
2334
Ur III
2112
Old Bab.
2000
Old Assyrian
2000
Mid. Bab.
1600
Middle Assyrian
1400
Neo-Assyr.
911
Neo-Bab.
626
Achaemenid
539

Whetstone & Clay Cuneiform Tablets

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial
Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: Wikimedia Commons file: File:Whetstone & Clay Cuneiform Tablets.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AWhetstone_%26_Clay_Cuneiform_Tablets.jpg. Description: Whetstone & Clay Cuneiform Tablets Mesopotamia 1500-539 BC Gallery, British Museum, London, England, UK. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.

Scholarly note

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Whetstone & Clay Cuneiform Tablets Mesopotamia 1500-539 BC Gallery, British Museum, London, England, UK. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.

Attribution

Image: Gary Todd — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Whetstone & Clay Cuneiform Tablets.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AWhetstone_%26_Clay_Cuneiform_Tablets.jpg. Description: Whetstone & Clay Cuneiform Tablets Mesopotamia 1500-539 BC Gallery, British Museum, London, England, UK. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com..

Related tablets

Related sources

~3300 BCE
Clay tablet, record of barley and emmer. Late Uruk period, 3300-3100 BCE. Purchased via Christie's, no provenance

~3300 BCE
Numerical and proto cuneiforms tablets - Oriental Institute

~3300 BCE
Pre-cuneiform writing tablet noting food ratios, Archives from the Temple of the Sky God, from Uruk (Irak), Late Uruk Period, around 3300 BC, Louvre Lens, France (26939082575)