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Clay Tablet - Louvre - AO29560
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Artist
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Description
English: Clay tablet with precuneiform writings
Français : Tablette d'argile avec écriture précunéiforme
Date
circa end of fourth millenium BC
Dimensions
Length: 4.5 cm (1.7 in); Width: 7.2 cm (2.8 in); Depth: 1.5 cm (0.5 in)dimensions QS:P2043,4.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,7.20U174728
dimensions QS:P5524,1.5U174728
Collection
Louvre Museum
(Inventory)
Native name
Musée du Louvre
Parent institution
Établissement public du musée du Louvre
Location
Paris
Coordinates
48° 51′ 37.42″ N, 2° 20′ 15.36″ E
Established
1793
Web page
www.louvre.fr
Authority control
: Q19675
VIAF: 257711507
ISNI: 0000 0001 2260 177X
ULAN: 500125189
LCCN: n80020283
NLA: 35912436
WorldCat
institution QS:P195,Q19675
Current location
Mésopotamie, room 1a: La Mésopotamie du Néolithique à l'époque des Dynasties archaïques de Sumer. Richelieu, ground floor. This work is part of the collections of the Louvre (Department of Near Eastern Antiquities).
Accession number
AO 29560
Credit line
1988: purchased
References
Musée du Louvre, Atlas database: entry 9629
Source/Photographer
Own work
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Sumer, site of the earliest known civilization, located in the southernmost part of Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in the area that later became Babylonia and is now southern Iraq, from around Baghdad to the Persian Gulf. The people called Sumerians, whose language became the prevailing language of the territory, probably came from around Anatolia, arriving in Sumer about 3300 BCE. By the 3rd millennium BCE the country was the site of at least 12 separate city-states: Kish, Erech (Uruk), Ur, Sippar, Akshak, Larak, Nippur, Adab, Umma, Lagash, Bad-tibira, and Larsa. Each of these states comprised a walled city and its surrounding villages and land, and each worshipped its own deity, whose temple was the central structure of the city. Political power originally belonged to the citizens, but, as rivalry between the various city-states increased, each adopted the institution of kingship. An extant document, The Sumerian King List, records that eight kings reigned before the great Flood.
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