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[On the use of a plowing team].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts LJS 480
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Akkadian
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Early works to 1800.
- Agriculture.
- Animal culture--Early works to 1800.
- Animal culture.
- Akkadian language--Texts.
- Akkadian language.
- Cuneiform tablets--Specimens.
- Cuneiform tablets.
- Genre:
- inscriptions
- tablets (information artifacts)
- Manuscripts, Digital.
- Specimens.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, March 2002.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
- Physical Description:
- 1 clay tablet ; 135 x 85 mm
- Production:
- [Babylonia], [between 1899 and 1700 B.C.]
- Language Note:
- Akkadian.
- Summary:
- Description of the use of oxen for plowing and other field work and the value in silver of volumes of barley for accounting purposes. Unfired clay tablet with some wear to the corners and a repaired crack on the back.
- Notes:
- Ms. inscription.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Layout: Inscribed in a total of 130 lines written in 2 columns on each side of the tablet.
- Script: Inscribed in cuneiform characters.
- Origin: Inscribed in Babylonia in the 19th or 18th century B.C.
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 127 (LJS 480).
- Cited as:
- UPenn LJS 480.
- OCLC:
- 855203193
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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