CDLI tablet
Erlenmeyer archaic: 2 (2024-07-05)
Created by: Englund, Robert K.
Proto-cuneiform model grain management account (Uruk III period, ca. 3200-3000 BC; owner: Land Berlin, Germany; on permanent loan to the Vorderasiatisches Museum)
The Uruk III period (ca. 3200-3000 BC) account from the former Swiss Erlenmeyer collection, auctioned at Christie’s London in December 1988 for £30,000, lists various amounts of differing cereal products and the results of the calculation of the cereal (barley groats and malt) required for their production. Bibliography: Hans J. Nissen, Peter Damerow & Robert K. Englund, Archaic Bookkeeping (Chicago 1993) pp. 42-43; Damerow, Englund & Nissen, Natuur & Techniek 59/9 (1991) 704; R. Englund in J. Bauer, R. Englund and M. Krebernik, OBO 160/1 (1998) 196 fig. 77. CDLI entry: P005313
credit: Englund, Robert K.
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