From the permanent collection · September 7, 2026
Proto-Cuneiform tablet with seal impressions: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars
Unknown artist · ca. 3100–2900 BCE
Clay
Proto-Cuneiform tablet with seal impressions: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars, by an unknown artist, ca. 3100–2900 BCE.
Clay.
From the collection of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Purchase, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gift, 1988.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Purchase, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gift, 1988
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