Numerical and proto cuneiforms tablets - Oriental Institute

~3300 BCE·Uruk Period·Numerical

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The world it comes from

The birth of the city, the birth of writing.

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Scholarly note

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Numerical tablet (left), numerical-ideographic tablet (center) and proto-cuneiform tablet (right), from the collections of the Oriental Institute of Chicago. Late Uruk period (maybe Jemdet-Nasr for th

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Image: Original: Daderot Derivative work : Zunkir — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Numerical and proto cuneiforms tablets - Oriental Institute.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ANumerical_and_proto_cuneiforms_tablets_-_Oriental_Institute.jpg. Description: Numerical tablet (left), numerical-ideographic tablet (center) and proto-cuneiform tablet (right), from the collections of the Oriental Institute of Chicago. Late Uruk period (maybe Jemdet-Nasr for the last one, no informations)..

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