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It's #TabletTuesday! This sales document, written in cuneiform, dates to the Seleucid period and comes from the site of Uruk. In it, a woman sells her son an empty plot of land. The question is what is actually happening here. That is, does the son actually buy the plot of land
It's #TabletTuesday! The forthcoming ISAC Museum special exhibition, "A Bestiary of Ancient Nubia" features the section on "Wild and dangerous" animals, looking at wild animals who were hunted, such as ibexes and gazelles, as well as more dangerous animals including hippos and
It's #TabletTuesday! As the new exhibition "A Bestiary of Ancient Nubia" notes, the Nubians lived closely together with animals and interacted with them in different ways. We can also see this in ancient Mesopotamia, where animals as well as inanimate objects are
It's #TabletTuesday! In the new publication, "Ancient Iran in the ISAC Museum: From Prehistory to the Achaemenid Period" Abbas Alizadeh discusses this very early cuneiform tablet, written in proto-elamite, a yet undeciphered language. He notes that proto-elamite "shares many
It's #TabletTuesday! There may still be snow here in Chicago, but we continue to look forward to the permanent arrival of warmer weather! In the meantime, we can think about what we have to look forward to, including green on the trees and the fruit that grows on them. In ancient
It's #TabletTuesday! Not all gates or doors are as substantial as the one fro yesterday's post. The tablet here describes here something far less sturdy. The tablet is a receipt for 2 doors made from reeds (gi.ig). These doors are to be used for the "sheep house of the field
It's #TabletTuesday! In Mesopotamia, it was important to maintain waterways so that fields could be irrigated. Weirs were low overflow structures which help with water flow in irrigation and in Ur III texts attest to the organization of water management: canals had to be cleaned
It's #TabletTuesday! The first tablet, said to be from Umma, is inscribed with a list of various fields and their area, in addition to the number of furrows that will be made in each field that will be planted. The question of how much will be planted in a field is an important
It's #TabletTuesday! This Neo-Babylonian tablet records the receipt of gold items that would be used in making gold pectorals of various individuals. The gold pectorals were apparently quite elaborately decorated. It describes one pectoral as being decorated with "braided gold
It's #TabletTuesday! This week we're looking at objects related to travel in the ISAC museum. In the ancient world, as now, people, animals, and objects that travelled from one place to another, sometimes over long distances. In some cases people moved permanently, while in other
It's #TabletTuesday! While tablets such as this one, provide a list of copper utensils given to an individual named Me-sag (who worked as a cupbearer for the ruler of Adab), we do not necessarily know what objects were meant, other than that they were made from copper. In total,
It's #TabletTuesday! Messengers were important in ancient diplomacy and international relations because they could carry messages to and from various places, allowing different countries to communicate with one another when they could not meet in person. But the importance of
It's #TabletTuesday! Despite not being mentioned that frequently in texts, pigs were an important livestock animal in ancient Mesopotamia and commonly eaten, even forming the part of expenditures of the deified deceased king Amar-Suen's funerary place. The care for pigs is
It's #TabletTuesday! As part of festivities involved in banqueting, it is necessary to be prepared and to have libations as well as foodstuffs for the revelers. In the case of Mesopotamia, beer played in important role and of course it was necessary for it to be brewed. In this
It's #TabletTuesday! The tablet here from Drehem records 186 gold threads that would be used for leather boots. These would be used either for embroidering or lacing the boots. In Ur III texts, one finds mentions of boots (kuš.šuḫub2) as in this text, in addition to sandals
It's #TabletTuesday! Gudea, King of Lagash, was most a most enthusiastic builder of temples, which he constructed and also renovated. On this clay peg or nail, he describes how he restored the Temple of E-Ninnu, located in the city of Girsu and dedicated to the god of that city,
It's #TabletTuesday! As noted yesterday, temples in Mesopotamia owned herds of animals and this tablet, while fragmentary, attests to a transaction involving herds that belong to a temple of the god Ninurta. It is unclear which temple of Ninurta is being referred to here, but it
It's #TabletTuesday! This tablet concerns the shipment of Uz-birds (ducks or geese) for the food tables of Ininni (Inanna). The birds would evidently be eaten at the temple of Inanna at the site of Girsu (modern Telloh), where this tablet is said to be from. Birds were not only
It's #TabletTuesday! This text is not from a burial, but it concerns a deceased queen, Abi-simti. Her exact relationship to the royal family is unclear (she may be the wife of Shulgi or Amar-Sin), but in this text she is being mentioned in connection with her " ki-a-nag" which is
It's #TabletTuesday! Tablets refer to seals, such as this text which mentions 1 lapus lazuli seal (kišib in Sumerian) and 50 seals of "assorted stones." Clearly lapis lazuli seals were considered valuable enough that they were referred to individually in the list, whereas other
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