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Cuneiform Tablet From the 3rd Dynasty of Ur - PF.0355
Origin: Syria
Circa: 2000
BC
to 1000
BC
Catalogue: V1
Collection: Near Eastern
Medium: Terracotta
$4,800.00
Location: United States
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Language, whether spoken or written, is
among
the greatest inventions of mankind.
Through
language, human beings can communicate
ideas
and information, can pass the
accumulated
knowledge of civilization from one
generation to
the next. It was in the ancient Near
East that
men first began to keep written records
of daily
life, taking permanent note of
commercial, legal
and personal affairs. This clay tablet
was
inscribed with a reed stylus centuries
ago and
then fired. Ironically, the people, the
business,
and the mighty empire it evokes have all
vanished with time. Yet, when we hold
this
modest token in our hands today, we are
in
direct communication with that ancient
world.
- (PF.0355)
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