Harvard Art Museums > 1983.105: Cuneiform Tablet: Old Assyrian Text Tablets Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Cuneiform Tablet: Old Assyrian Text , 1983.105,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 25, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/289669. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1983.105 Title Cuneiform Tablet: Old Assyrian Text Classification Tablets Work Type tablet Date c.1900-1750 BCE Period Bronze Age, Middle Culture Assyrian Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/289669 Location Location Level 3, Room 3620, University Study Gallery View this object's location on our interactive map Physical Descriptions Medium Clay Technique Impressed Dimensions 2.6 x 4 x 1.3 cm (1 x 1 9/16 x 1/2 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Nanette Rodney Kelekian, New York, formerly in the possession of her father Charles Dikran Kelekian; gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1983. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Nanette B. Rodney Accession Year 1983 Object Number 1983.105 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Small rectangular clay tablet with cuneiform writing. The tablet is inscribed with ruled lines of text written in the Old Assyrian dialect of the Akkadian language. Tablet is whole with 4 lines of text on obverse, 1 on lower edge and 1 on reverse. The rest of tablet is uninscribed and there are no seal impressions. The tablet probably comes from the trading colony (karum) by the mound of Kültepe (ancient Kanesh) near Kaiseri in Cappadocia (central Anatolia). The text is very short and records the writer of the tablet (line 5: "I gave") entrusting 7 shekels of second-quality silver, presumably for transport. IMAGE: Top row, first on left. Exhibition History 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2019 - 01/08/2020; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 01/02/2022; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/02/2023 - 12/30/2023; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2024 - 01/05/2025 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
