====Most Important Cuneiform Objects 21-30==== [[objects11to20|[Previous 10 objects]]][[the_one_hundred_most_important_cuneiform_objects|[Back to main page]]][[objects31to40|[Next 10 objects]]] ---- [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=figure_aux_plumes|21. Figure aux plumes]] [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=figure_aux_plumes|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P220632_detail.jpg?100}}]] A poorly understood stone land-sale document, possibly showing one of the earliest images of an anthropomorphic god in Mesopotamia. [[figure_aux_plumes|More information...]] //Artifact//: Stone tablet\\ //Provenience//: Girsu, modern Tello\\ //Period//: Early Dynastic I-II (ca. 2900-2700 BC)\\ //Current location//: Louvre Museum, Paris (AO 221)\\ ---- [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=old_assyrian_limmu_list|22. The Old Assyrian Limmu List]] [[old_assyrian_limmu_list|{{ image.jpg?100}}]] A list of years named after officials, one important tool for establishing a chronology of first part of the first millennium B.C. [[old_assyrian_limmu_list|More information...]] //Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ //Provenience//: Kültepe\\ //Period//: Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)\\ //Current location//: Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi, Ankara (kt 92/k 0193) \\ \\ ---- [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=reforms_of_urukagina|23. The Reforms of UruKAgina]] [[reforms_of_urukagina|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P222607_detail.jpg?100}}]] The Sumerian king Urukagina shows he is a just ruler, describing in this document a number of legal and social reforms - including a debt cancellation. [[reforms_of_urukagina|More information...]] //Artifact//: Clay cone\\ //Provenience//: Girsu, modern Tello\\ //Period//: ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340)\\ //Current location//: Louvre Museum, Paris\\ \\ \\ ---- [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=architecte_au_plan|24. Architecte au Plan]] [[architecte_au_plan|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/p431884detail.jpg?100}}]] On this inscribed statue, seated king Gudea holds in his lap a drawn plan of Ningirsu's temple [[architecte_au_plan|More information...]] //Artifact//: Stone statue\\ //Provenience//: Girsu, modern Tello\\ //Period//: Lagash II (ca. 2200-2100 BC)\\ //Current location//: Louvre Museum, Paris (AO 2)\\ ---- [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=umma_lagash_border_conflict|25. The Umma-Lagash border conflict]] [[umma_lagash_border_conflict|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P222532_detail.jpg?100}}]] A series of conflicts over land and irrigation rights, between two neighbouring city-states in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia. [[umma_lagash_border_conflict|More information...]] //Artifact//: Clay cone\\ //Provenience//: Girsu, modern Tello\\ //Period//: ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340)\\ //Current location//: [[http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/cone-enmetena-king-lagash|Louvre Museum, Paris]]\\ ---- [[letter_tushratta_amenhotep|{{ image.jpg?100|}}]] [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=letter_tushratta_amenhotep |26. EA 17, a letter of the Mitannian king Tushratta to Pharaoh Amenhotep III]] In which Tushratta of Mittanni presents Pharaoh Amenhotep III with booty from the land of Hatti. [[letter_tushratta_amenhotep|More information...]] //Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ //Provenience//: Amarna\\ //Period//: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)\\ //Current location//: British Museum, London (BM 29792)\\ [[blau_monuments|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P005996_detail.jpg?100|}}]] [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=blau_monuments |27. The Blau Monuments]] A third millennium monument with figures in relief, possibly recording the exchange of large tracts of land for other goods [[blau_monuments|More information...]] //Artifact//: Stone\\ //Period//: ED I-II (ca. 2900-2700 BC)\\ //Current location//: [[http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/t/the_blau_monuments.aspx|British Museum, London]] (BM 086260 and BM 086261)\\ ---- [[earliest_known_mathematical_exercise|{{ http://cdli.ucla.edu/images/P003118detail.jpg?100|}}]] [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=earliest_known_mathematical_exercise |28. The earliest known mathematical exercise ]] This account represents a hallmark in the history of science and played a role in important studies of the earliest numerical systems. [[earliest_known_mathematical_exercise|More information...]] //Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ //Provenience//: Uruk, modern Warka\\ //Period//: Uruk IV (ca. 3350-3200 BC)\\ //Current location//: University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg (W 19408,76+)\\ ---- [[laws_ur_nammu|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/p250820detail.jpg?100|}}]] [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=laws_ur_nammu |29. The Laws of Ur-Nammu]] Written in Sumerian, this is the earliest known law collection from ancient Mesopotamia. [[laws_ur_nammu|More information...]] //Artifact//: Clay cylinder\\ //Provenience//: Unknown\\ //Period//: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)\\ //Current location//: Schøyen Collection, Oslo (MS 2064)\\ ---- [[early_literary_catalogue|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P275014_detail.jpg?100|}}]] [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=early_literary_catalogue |30. An early literary catalogue]] A rare piece of evidence for the debate regarding the extent of Sumerian literary traditions at the end of the third millennium B.C. [[early_literary_catalogue|More information...]] //Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ //Provenience//: Unknown\\ //Period//: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)\\ //Current location//: Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven (YBC 03654)\\ ----