Clay Tablet with Cuneiform Script.
Babylon: c.555-539BC]. A baked clay tablet (50 x 38 x 20 mm), with 7 partial and complete lines of cuneiform script on the obverse, and 2 lines on the reverse, concerning the sale of animals. Provenance : Col. Alec Bunn (manuscript note, dated January 1946, noting the gift of the tablet and some details about the tablet). a very rare survival from the last two decades of the neo-babylonian kingdom: one of the great civilizations of antiquity . The note describes the tablet as being “A cuniform [sic.] letter about the sale of some animals … Reign of Nabonidus … the last King of Babylon. Cyrus [the Great of Persia] invaded Babylonia and destroyed the Empire [in 539BC]”. An ink inscription on the tablet reads “Nabonidus / 8th year”: if this is correct, then the tablet can be dated to 547BC.
Clay Tablet with Cuneiform Script.
Babylon: c.555-539BC]. A baked clay tablet (50 x 38 x 20 mm), with 7 partial and complete lines of cuneiform script on the obverse, and 2 lines on the reverse, concerning the sale of animals. Provenance : Col. Alec Bunn (manuscript note, dated January 1946, noting the gift of the tablet and some details about the tablet). a very rare survival from the last two decades of the neo-babylonian kingdom: one of the great civilizations of antiquity . The note describes the tablet as being “A cuniform [sic.] letter about the sale of some animals … Reign of Nabonidus … the last King of Babylon. Cyrus [the Great of Persia] invaded Babylonia and destroyed the Empire [in 539BC]”. An ink inscription on the tablet reads “Nabonidus / 8th year”: if this is correct, then the tablet can be dated to 547BC.
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