MDP 17, 247

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).