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Tablet with calculation and addition of the areas of five fields
clay
3200-2900 BCE
proto Sumerian culture
Jemdet Nasr, Ancient Mesopotamia
present day Iraq

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Ancient Sumerian cuneiform tablets represent one of humanity's earliest writing systems. Developed in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) around 3200 BCE, they began as administrative pictographs on clay before evolving into abstract, wedge-shaped phonetic symbols. Early tablets like this one were used for administrative purposes to record the storage and distribution of goods, animals and people. This tablet comes from Jemdet Nasr, the remains of an ancient site in southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Tablets such as this list quantities of different commodities using an early form of the cuneiform script, and the circles and half circles that you can see across the document indicate numerals. This tablet is known as the 'field of the EN. It contains calculations for the areas of five fields. The scribe added these figures together and divided the grand total into thirds. Two thirds were allocated to a person called the EN, which is Sumerian for 'lord', while the remaining third was divided unevenly among other individuals, including the wife of the EN. It clearly reflects a hierarchical society, with EN as a leading figure. from the Ashmolean Museum See it on display in Gallery 19, Level G
May 30, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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Shuruppak: enduring for about a millennium, starting in the early #JemdetNasr (3100-2900 BC) & ending during one of many dramatic #Antediluvian regional floods.

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The History Files: Shuruppak (Sumer)
September 11, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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Uruk III / #JemdetNasr: the #UrukIII period which succeeded #UrukIV saw #Uruk itself being fully reconstructed, with Uruk-form tablets disappearing outside of southern #Mesopotamia.

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The History Files: Uruk III / Jemdet Nasr Period
September 19, 2026 at 6:59 PM