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~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

HS 980 01 top

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: HS 980 01 top

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

ImagineRITCaryGraphicArtsCollectionCuneiformTablet

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Imagine RIT 2018 en:Clay tablet in the Cary Graphic Arts Collection

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Inscribed stone tablet of Entemena, 2400 BCE. From Lagash, Iraq. Pergamon Museum

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Inscribed votive stone tablet of Entemena (also Enmetena), king of Lagash (it was found with a foundation bronze figurine). Circa 2400 BCE. From Lagash, Iraq. Perga…

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Jehoiachin Ration Tablet detail

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Administrative tablet from the South Palace of Babylon, dated from the reign of king Nebuchednezzar, list of rations of people feeded by the royal administration, i…

Economy·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Meaning of pre-cuneiform pictogrpahic characters

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Meaning of pre-cuneiform pictogrpahic characters

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tablets

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Cuneiform tablets preserved in a museum.

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Mesopotamian - Mesopotamian Tablet - Walters 481803 - View A

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: This tablet has a cuneiform inscription on two faces, was blackened in baking, and is broken in two parts. It was repaired in 1957 and may be a forgery.

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Middle Assyrian cuneiform tablet - administrative memorandum

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Cuneiform tablet: administrative memorandum. Ca. 13th century B.C. MMA 62.85.02 CDLI https://cdli.earth/artifacts/273604

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Middle Assyrian cuneiform tablet - administrative record

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Cuneiform tablet impressed with two cylinder seals: administrative record. Ca. 13th century B.C. MMA 62.85.3 CDLI https://cdli.earth/artifacts/273605

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Middle Assyrian cuneiform tablet recording barley allocations

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Cuneiform tablet: record of barley allocations. Ca. 13th century B.C.

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Numerical tablet Khafaje OIM A21310

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Numerical tablet, dated ca 3500-3350 BC (Uruk V phase), found in Khafaje. Oriental Institute Museum A21310. CDLI P235768 https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.…

Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Persepolis clay tablet

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay Tablet, Persepolis Museum, Iran

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Ritmal-Cuneiform tablet - Kirkor Minassian collection - Library of Congress

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Ritmal-Cuneiform tablet - Kirkor Minassian collection - Library of Congress

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

School tablet - Sumerian cuneiform - Susa - 2nd mil BC - National Museum of Iran - Inventory number - 1885

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: National Museum of Iran

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Semitic Babylonian contract-tablet

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Semitic Babylonian Contract-tablet. Inscribed in the reign of Hammurabi with a deed recording the division of property. The actual tablet is on the right; that whi…

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

State Library of Victoria - Joy of Museums - Cuneiform Tablet

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: State Library of Victoria, Australia - see www.joyofmuseums.com

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Stone cuneiform tablet with building-dedicatory inscription of Nabû-balassu-iqbi MET ME56 81 53

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian (?); Cuneiform tablet; Stone-Tablets-Inscribed

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Stone cuneiform tablet with inscription of Ashurnasirpal II MET DP247102

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Assyrian; Cuneiform tablet; Stone-Tablets-Inscribed

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Stone cuneiform tablet with inscription of Ashurnasirpal II MET DP249703

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Assyrian; Cuneiform tablet; Stone-Tablets-Inscribed

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Sumerian Cuneiform Stone Tablet AO 3866

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Sumerian Cuneiform Stone Tablet AO 3866 Ancient Near East Gallery, Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating approximately 2041 B.C. Is a receipt for the donation of livestock to the feast for a Sumerian king

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: The oldest piece in the McDonald Rare Book Collection at OSU is a Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating approximately 2041 B.C. The fragile piece has a prosaic purpose,…

Economy·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Sumerian - Protoliterate Tablet - Walters 41219 - View A

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: From a unique group of early documents recording the transfer of land (in this case one "b'uru"- about 150 acres), this tablet illustrates the transition from a wr…

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Tablet and enveloppe Ashmolean 1930.407

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: A clay tablet and the enveloppe in which it was sent, with seal impression. Letter recording the dissolving of a business partnership. From ancient Kish, Old Babylo…

Law

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Tablet BM131452

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay cuneiform tablet of a legal case before Saustatar, King of Mitanni, involving Niqmepa, King of Alalakh. Dated 1550BC-1400BC.

Law

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Tablet city seal offering Ashmolean

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Cuneiform tablet, with record of offerings to temples, possibly by a league of cities, whose seals are impressed on the sides of the tablet (so-called "city seals")…

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Tablet of Shamash

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Photo of the Tablet of Shamash

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Tablet of Shamash (2)

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Cropped image of the Tablet of Shamash showing only the figure of Shamash himself please insert correct cuniform translation 𒈦𒐖 m=𒈦,s/ts=𒐖

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Tablet of Tiglath-Pileser II

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Tablet of Tiglath-Pileser II

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Tablet with cuneiform abecedarium-AO 19992-IMG 6956

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0 fr). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Tablet with cuneiform abecedarium-AO 19992-IMG 6956

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Tablet Zimri-Lim Louvre AO20161

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Tablet of Zimri-Lim, king of Mari, concerning the foundation of an ice-house in Terqa. Baked clay, ca. 1780 BC. (See en:Zimrilim , reign 1779 BC - 1757 BC.)

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Temple evolution in cuneiform (sound E)

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Temple evolution in cuneiform (sound E). Source: A guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities, p.22

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

The Newly Discovered Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Meeting Humbaba, with Enkidu, at the Cedar Forest. The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: The tablet dates back to the Old-Babylonian Period, 2003-1595 BCE.

Religion & Myth

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

The oldest writing in the world - The Sumerian Stone Tablet

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…

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Triangle geometrical tablet Ashmolean 1931 91

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay tablet with geometrical diagram of a triangle. Calculation of the area of the triangle, but the scribe got it wrong, cf. Robson, "Mathematical cuneiform tablet…

Astronomy & Mathematics

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Turkish - Cappadocian Tablet with Cumeiform Inscription - Walters 481463 - View A

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: This tablet is unglazed.

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

United States versus Approximately 450 Ancient Cuneiform Tablets, 2017 (page 1 crop)

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: This is a United States government court filing from a smuggling case involving Hobby Lobby and archaeological looting in Iraq .

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Ur Bau tablet AO261 mp3h9041

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0 fr). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: .mw-parser-output table.commons-file-information-table,.mw-parser-output .fileinfotpl-type-information,.mw-parser-output .fileinfotpl-type-artwork{border:1px sol…

Economy·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Urartian Tablet 12

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Urartian Tablet 12

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Whetstone & Clay Cuneiform Tablets

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Whetstone & Clay Cuneiform Tablets Mesopotamia 1500-539 BC Gallery, British Museum, London, England, UK. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

WML 1963.188.1

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — WML 1963.188.1. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

WML 1963.188.2

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — WML 1963.188.2. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

WML 1963.188.5

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — WML 1963.188.5. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

WML 1963.188.6

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — WML 1963.188.6. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

WML 51.63.017

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — WML 51.63.017. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

WML 51.63.049

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — WML 51.63.049. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

WML 51.63.075

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — WML 51.63.075. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

WML 51.63.085

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — WML 51.63.085. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

WML 51.63.096

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — WML 51.63.096. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

WML 51.63.102

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — WML 51.63.102. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

WML 51.63.158

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — WML 51.63.158. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Economy

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