====Most Important Cuneiform Objects 41-50====
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[[cylinder_nabonidus|{{ image.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=cylinder_nabonidus |41. A cylinder of Nabonidus]]

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//Artifact//: Clay cylinder\\ 
//Provenience//: \\ 
//Period//: Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: \\ 

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[[shamash_tablet|{{ http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/dl/photo/NB_Shamashtablet.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=shamash_tablet |42. The Shamash Tablet]]

A Neo-Babylonian king celebrates the restoration of Shamash's cult in Sippar on a stone tablet headed by an elegant bas relief. [[shamash_tablet|More information...]]

//Artifact//: Stone tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: Sippar\\ 
//Period//: Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: British Museum, London\\ 



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[[58_designations_swine|{{ :p000014detail.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=58_designations_swine |43. 58 designations for swine]]

An unusual text among the many Mesopotamian lexical lists. [[58_designations_swine|More information...]]


//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: Uruk, modern Warka\\ 
//Period//: Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin (VAT 16773)\\ 

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[[ushumgal_stela|{{ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/P220620_detail.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=ushumgal_stela|44. Ushumgal Stela]]

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//Artifact//: Stone tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: Umma?\\ 
//Period//: Early Dynastic I-II (ca. 2900-2700 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York\\ 

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[[god_list_fara|{{ :ediiia_faragodlist.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=god_list_fara|45. The large God-list from Fara]]

Listing over 500 gods of third millennium Mesopotamia.[[god_list_fara|More information...]]


//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: Fara\\ 
//Period//: ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany\\ 

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[[collection_proverbs|{{ :image.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=collection_proverbs|46. A Collection of Proverbs]]

The earliest known proverbs collection. [[collection_proverbs|More information...]]


//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: Abū Salābīkh\\ 
//Period//: ED IIIa (ca. 2600-2500 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq\\ 

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[[enki_love_charm|{{ ttp://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/p285640detail.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=enki_love_charm|47. Enki loves the love-charm]]

This Old Akkadian literary text contains the earliest known love incantation. [[enki_love_charm|More information...]]


//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: Kish\\ 
//Period//: Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (Ashm 1930-143 + Ashm 1930-175h)\\ 

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[[large_account_basketry_carpentry|{{ http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/dl/photo/P131750.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=large_account_basketry_carpentry|48. A large account of a basketry and carpentry workshop]]

One of the largest clay tablets yet found, it features a complex account of actual and predicted income and outgoings at one workshop. [[large_account_basketry_carpentry|More information...]]


//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: Girsu, modern Telloh\\ 
//Period//: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: Louvre Museum, Paris (AO 6036)\\ 

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[[receipt_year_end_account|{{ http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/dl/lineart/P106696_l.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=receipt_year_end_account|49. Receipt shown by V. V. Struve to relate to year-end's account]]

A receipt which was used to prove the real nature of the Ur III accounting system. [[receipt_year_end_account|More information...]]


//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: Umma, modern Djokha\\ 
//Period//: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: Yale Babylonian Collection, Yale University (NBC 2087)\\ 

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[[growth_herd_cattle|{{ :image.jpg?100|}}]]
[[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=growth_herd_cattle|50. The growth of a herd of cattle]]

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//Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ 
//Provenience//: Drehem\\ 
//Period//: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: Louvre Museum, Paris (AO 5499)\\