Position in chronology
The oldest writing in the world - The Sumerian Stone Tablet
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The world it comes from
Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.
Scholarly note
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: A Sumerian Stone Tablet containing a Locust Charm; unknown origin (p. 30). It was labelled in a 1907 book as "the oldest writing in the world". The tablet records the means taken to rid various tracts
Attribution
Image: editorship by Prof. Charles F. Horne — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:The oldest writing in the world - The Sumerian Stone Tablet.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AThe_oldest_writing_in_the_world_-_The_Sumerian_Stone_Tablet.jpg. Description: A Sumerian Stone Tablet containing a Locust Charm; unknown origin (p. 30). It was labelled in a 1907 book as "the oldest writing in the world". The tablet records the means taken to rid various tracts of the land of a plague of locust and c.
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