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C. 3100-3000 BC -  Late Uruk Period

An interesting inscribed clay cuneiform tablet with pictographic script, invented in Southern Mesopotamia more than 5000 years ago. Sumerian cuneiform is known as the earliest writing system, developed from pictographs and other various symbols, which were used to represent livestock and trade goods onto clay tablets. Sumerian was spoken in the southern region of ancient Mesopotamia in Sumer. 

Repaired with clear detail. 

Size: 55mm x 57mm  

Provenance; 
The seller of this lot hereby guarantees that this object was obtained legally. Purchased from the estate of a deceased gentleman collected before 1988 and by decent to his family and kept in London.

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3100-3000 BC - Unknown

Mesopotamian - Clay Cuneiform Tablet Fragment

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