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It contains a small selection of some of the 20,000 or more early second millennium cuneiform tablets found at Mari.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe middle section of the rear hall is dedicated to two northern sites, Tell Hajib and Arslan Tash. The third section displays finds from Tell Ahmar, excavated by the French in the 1920s. The large gallery that runs along the third side of the building is used to house finds from several sites, including Ebla and Ain Dara. The second floor contains numerous artifacts found during the major excavations carried out by multi-national expeditions in the flooded region of Lake Assad on the Euphrates.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EClick \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cdli.ucla.edu\/search\/search_results.php?Collection=Aleppo\u0026amp;Period=Ur+III\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E for a selection of several recently digitized Ur III (ca. 2000 BC) tablets in the Aleppo collection.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","is_pinned":true,"collection_actor":"Agency","collection_holding":"Museum","collection_actor_status":"Public","collection_holding_status":"Extant","collection_is_private":false,"country_iso":"SYR","region_gadm":"SYR.2_1","district_gadm":"SYR.2.6_1","location_longitude_wgs1984":37.1503,"location_latitude_wgs1984":36.2034,"location_accuracy":null,"glow_id":40,"license_id":null,"license_attribution":"Directorate-General for Antiquities and Museums, Syrian Arab Republic","license_comment":null,"_joinData":{"id":304400,"artifact_id":448229,"collection_id":277}}],"artifact_type":{"id":4,"artifact_type":"tablet","parent_id":27,"description":"Tablets were the most common medium for writing in Mesopotamia. Styluses were impressed upon wet clay which, when sun dried or baked, would harden and preserve the text. Tablets were used for official letters and missives, economic archival texts, legal texts, religious documents and the recording of omen lists to educational texts and poetry. The \u003Ci\u003Elongue dur\u00e9e\u003C\/i\u003E of the clay tablet\u2019s use as a primary writing form and the durability of baked clay has led to an astounding number of tablets to survive to this day. Tablet here is the distinct and singular category of the baked clay text.There is no differentiation between the genre of the tablet but simply the materiality and dimensions of the object, be it lenticular of rectangular.Other forms of writing such as writing boards, prisms and cylinders are in categories of their own. Likewise the clay envelope casings that tablets were transported in are found in the envelope category. Similarly the category of \u2018Tablet \u0026amp; Envelope\u2019 is for tablets that have survived with their particular envelopes \u2013 in both extant and fragmented states \u2013 from antiquity. \u2018Tablet\u2019 is also distinct from the \u2018Tag\u2019 category as, although the objects can near identical lenticular inscribed clay objects, tags represent a specific administrative function and evolutionary point in the development of writing. "},"period":{"id":18,"sequence":19,"period":"Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)","name":"Old Babylonian","time_range":"ca. 1900-1600 BC"},"provenience":{"id":250,"provenience":"Terqa (mod. Ashara)","location_id":541,"place_id":136,"region_id":null,"description":null},"entities_publication":{"id":276965478,"entity_id":448229,"publication_id":1777094,"exact_reference":"134-137","publication_type":"history","publication_comments":null,"table_name":"artifacts"}}]}]