MDP 17, 247

• M387, M305, M376, M004, M058, M057~a, M346, M320, M066, M388 — These are proto-cuneiform sign designations from the CDLI/MSVO sign list. Their referents — what commodity or category each pictogram represents — are in most cases not yet conclusively identified. M346 may relate to a type of vessel or container; M004 and M058 appear in administrative contexts possibly related to grain or rations, but certainty is low.
• N14 value — The numerical value of N14 relative to N01 depends on which metrological system is in use (sexagesimal, bisexagesimal, capacity, area, etc.). In the most common Uruk period sexagesimal system N14 = 10 × N01, giving e.g. '1(N14) 9(N01)' = 19 and '2(N14)' = 20. This conventional rendering is used in the translation but is system-dependent.
• M320#? — The '#' and '?' in the transliteration indicate the reading is uncertain even for the original editor — the sign is damaged or ambiguous. Cannot verify from photo.
• n (final line) — Conventional notation indicating a numeral is present but its value is illegible or entirely broken away.

The photograph shows multiple fragments of a small clay tablet, here arranged to display the obverse and reverse along with edge fragments and a separate lower piece. The upper cluster of fragments shows clear horizontal rulings separating entries, with visible impressed numerical signs (round deep impressions for N01, larger round impressions for N14) and incised/impressed pictographic signs in each register. Several circular hole-like impressions are visible mid-tablet — these appear to be the N01 numerical signs rather than damage. The surface is significantly abraded and cracked, with substantial lacunae at the edges of almost every line, consistent with the heavy use of square brackets and 'x' in the scholar-provided transliteration. The lower large fragment (reverse or a separate face) shows only faint incised marks, heavily eroded and largely illegible from the photograph. A museum label '247' (the MDP catalog number) is visible on one piece. The photo broadly confirms the transliteration's structure of alternating commodity signs and numerals in ruled registers, though individual sign identifications (e.g., M320?, M387, M388) cannot be verified at this resolution given the proto-cuneiform pictographic style and surface erosion. This is a standard Uruk-period proto-cuneiform account tablet from Susa, paralleling the Uruk IV–III corpus from southern Mesopotamia; the sign corpus and metrological system align with the MDP 17 and MSVO publication traditions (Damerow & Englund).