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Tablet of Pre-Cuneiform Script
Pictogram Script Tablet Pre-Cuneiform
This baked clay tablet from southern Mesopotamia reveals a picture script with notches that were made with a cylindrical instrument rather than triangular as with cuneiform. It dates back to the fourth millennium BC before the flood of Noah.Louvre
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Tablet of pre-cuneiform script
South Mesopotamia
Uruk III, end of the 4th millennium BC.
Clay (?sun-baked clay)
H. 7.2 cm
AO 29560
Description
"The increasing complexity of
transactions, provoked by the volume of exchanges, was at the origin
of the invention of means of recording. At the end of the
Genesis 15:7 - And he said unto him, I [am] the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
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