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| Keywords: Mesopotamian - Tablet with Seal Impression - Walters 481806.jpg 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 the seal may have belonged to the person who wrote the tablet between 2100 2050 BC Ur III baked clay cm 4 5 4 2 5 accession number 48 1806 39826 Sadie Jones Mrs Henry Walters New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Sale Joseph Brummer New York 1941 Walters Art Museum 1941 by purchase Museum purchase 1941 Inscription place of origin Ngirsu present-day Tell Telloh Iraq Walters Art Museum license Shulgi Third Dynasty of Ur Sumerian seal impressions Art of Mesopotamia in the Walters Art Museum Archaeological seal impressions Clay archaeological objects-seal impressed Cuneiform on cylinder seals Cylinder seal impressions Cylinder seals-impressed or documented objects Sumerian language clay tablets Economic clay tablets Scribes Scribal works DINGIR god-as-star Sumerogram DUMU son Sumerogram A cuneiform | ||||
