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Cuneiform Tablet

MOA: University of British Columbia

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Cuneiform tablet mounted inside an open wood frame, so that both sides are visible. One side appears to have ten rows of inscription; the other side appears to have seven rows. The frame is about the same thickness as the tablet and covers all four of its outer edges.

  • History Of Use

    Legal contract; likely from the Seleucid period, possibly from Uruk?

  • Narrative

    "OS 13" has been stamped in dark ink on one side. The donor said the tablet used to be owned by his wife's uncle, Bernd Schwassman, who moved to Montreal from Germany in 1950. The "OS 13" on the object suggests it may have been owned previously by Otto Schroder, who was an Assyriologist. Schroder worked in the Berlin museums, just after the turn of the century. The object was probably excavated sometime during the 1910s-1920s, in Iraq.

  • Type of Item tablet
  • Culture Near East
  • Material clay, wood
  • Measurements height 4.8 cm, width 6.3 cm, depth 1.8 cm (overall) height 10.5 cm, width 13.6 cm, depth 1.9 cm (frame)
  • Previous Owner Alfred Ehses
  • Received from Alfred Ehses
  • Made in Uruk
  • Creation Date between 313 BCE and 64 BCE
  • Collection Date during 1920
  • Ownership Date before February 21, 2018
  • Acquisition Date on February 21, 2018
  • Item Classes ceramics
  • Condition good
  • Accession Number 3291/0001

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