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Most Important Cuneiform Objects 71-80
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71. The Ugaritic Baal Myth, tablet four
A sweeping tale of Baal’s struggle for an elevated position in the divine pantheon. More information...
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience:Ras Shamra, Syria
Period: Late Bronze Age (c. 1400-1200 BCE)
Current location: The National Museum of Aleppo, Syria\\]
72. Proof of the Sumerian UD.GAL.NUN orthography
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience:
Period:
Current location: \\]
Though several manuscripts are known, this large clay prism is an extraordinary text witness of the so-called Ur-Namma Law Code. More information...
Artifact: Clay prism
Provenience: Unprovenanced
Period: Ur III
Current location: Schøyen Collection, Oslo
The tablet, whose content was interpreted as highlighting the rituals undertaken by the diviner, is unique so far in the cuneiform textual record. More information...
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience: Unprovenanced
Period: Old Babylonian
Current location: Harvard Semitic Museum
75. Paleography Exercise CTN 4, 229
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience:
Period:
Current location: \\]
76. Lamentation over the Destruction of Lagash
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience: Girsu
Period: ED IIIb
Current location: Louvre, Paris
77. Tablet I of the Creation Myth
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience: Kish
Period: Neo-Babylonian
Current location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
78. Old Babylonian list of deities
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience: Unprovenanced
Period: Old Babylonian
Current location: Louvre, Paris
79. Mathematical text BM 13901
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience: uncertain
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Current location: British Museum, London\\]
Artifact: Clay tablet
Provenience: uncertain
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Current location: Yale Babylonian Collection, New heaven\\]
