Tablet with Seal Impression

2100-2050 BCE (Ur III)

4 cm 4.5 cm 2.5 cm

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Before the writing was added, this tablet, a receipt, was marked with a cylinder seal dated to the reign of King Shulgi of Ur. Still visible are a standing figure of a worshiper with one hand raised and three lines of an inscription with the name of a scribe, suggesting that t...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by purchase.
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