CDLI Tablet
Proto-Elamite: 5
Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2024-03-14
To the left a Proto-Elamite tablet from the Susa excavations of either Morgan or de Mecquenem (MDP 17, 153), to its right a tablet excavated by LeBrun’s team in the 1960s. Both tablets are signed with the same scribal design, shown in red to the right.
Proto-Elamite: 4
Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2024-03-13
Proto-Elamite tablet joined from two fragments in the Louvre Museum. This tablet dates to the last phase of the proto-Elamite writing system. It has on the reverse, instead of a seal impression, a scribal design. Identical designs are found on a few other texts with similar content proving that these did, in fact, function as seals.
Proto-Elamite: 3
Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2024-03-12
Account of the production from the same herds as in “Proto-Elamite: 2”
Proto-Elamite: 2
Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2024-03-11
MDP 17, 96+325+380, lists animals belonging to some fifteen different herds. In 2004, the three fragments were joined by Jacob Dahl, working in the Louvre Museum collections of proto-Elamite tablets. The account is a key-text for the decipherment of sheep and goat terminology in proto-Elamite texts (ca. 3100-2900 BC).
Proto-Elamite: 1
Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2024-03-10
An almost completely preserved clay-tablet in proto-Elamite from ancient Susa inscribed with a complicated account. On the reverse is a seal of a high-ranking official, probably the ruler.
WMD: Metrology modern and ancient
Created by Englund, Robert K. on 2024-03-09
This year’s World Metrology Day is a reminder of the important role of the standardization of weights and measures in today’s world, as it was in the development of administrative control and science in Babylonia.
YBC: Highlights 133
Created by Wagensonner, Klaus on 2024-03-07
Digitizing Tablets (YPM BC 004875, NBC 1902; Old Assyrian period (about 2000–1700 BC); Kültepe (ancient Kanesh); 52 x 52 x 28 mm; clay)
YBC: Highlights 131
Created by Wagensonner, Klaus on 2024-03-05
Digitizing Seals (YPM BC 006144, NBC 3171; Late Old Babylonian period (about 1700–1600 BC) to Kassite period (1595–1155 BC); 33 x 19 mm; jasper or aventurine)
YBC: Highlights 130
Created by Wagensonner, Klaus on 2024-03-04
Current Research – Cuneiform Commentaries Project (YPM BC 010830, NBC 7843; probably Persian period (539–331 BC); Nippur and Uruk; 88 x 61 x 22 mm; clay)
YBC: Highlights 129
Created by Wagensonner, Klaus on 2024-03-03
A Modern “Clay” Tablet (YPM BC 030150, YBC 16938; 16 June 1911; New Haven, Connecticut, USA; 66 x 43 x 17 mm; clay)
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