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Located on the third floor of the Sterling Memorial Library, the\u0026nbsp;collection\u0026nbsp;houses over 45,000 artifacts. While the bulk of the\u0026nbsp;collection\u0026nbsp;is comprised of inscribed artifacts such as cuneiform tablets, it also houses many other artifacts from the ancient Near East, most notably cylinder and stamp seals, but also clay figurines, stone sculpture, and so forth.\u0026nbsp;It is one of the largest\u0026nbsp;collections\u0026nbsp;of seals and textual material from ancient Mesopotamia in North America and ranks among the leading\u0026nbsp;collections\u0026nbsp;in the world.\u0026nbsp;A complete reference library, a seminar room, and work space for visiting scholars invites researchers worldwide to conduct their research on primary materials.\u0026nbsp;The\u0026nbsp;Collection\u0026nbsp;aims to preserve, publish, and make available for everyone the artifacts it houses. In 2017 the Yale Babylonian\u0026nbsp;Collection\u0026nbsp;became formally affiliated with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/peabody.yale.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EYale Peabody Museum of Natural History\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; This affiliation has opened up improved avenues for public exhibitions, as well as easy online dissemination of\u0026nbsp;collection\u0026nbsp;materials.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThrough generous support from the Council of Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the National Endowment of the Humanities, two major digitization efforts are currently under way: By 2022 the entire\u0026nbsp;collection\u0026nbsp;of cuneiform artifacts will be digitized using high-resolution HDR photography. Approximately 25 % will also be captured employing a Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) camera dome, which was built by the Electronics and Computer Science Department at\u0026nbsp;the University of Southampton. The second tier of the digitization project focuses on the cylinder and stamp seals. The cylinder seals are captured using a Betterlight system and Oxford\u0026rsquo;s SIANE seal imaging kit.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOur current catalogue lists\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022\/search\/?collection=Yale\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E34,754\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;items, a number that certainly will increase over time as new items previously uncatalogued will be added. Starting in 2022,\u0026nbsp;textual sources will be transliterated and translated in a major effort to make the\u0026nbsp;collection\u0026nbsp;even more accessible for researchers worldwide. Apart from the CDLI, all images are available on the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/collections.peabody.yale.edu\/search\/Search\/Advanced?collection=Anthropology\u0026amp;searchText2=BC\u0026amp;searchField2=CatalogNumber\u0026amp;matchTerms=AND\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPeabody Museum\u0026rsquo;s search portal\u003C\/a\u003E. 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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":null,"entities_publication":{"id":275229125,"entity_id":430951,"publication_id":178031,"exact_reference":"p. 21","publication_type":"primary","publication_comments":"","table_name":"artifacts"}}]}]