IDNO

LS.79987.

Description

Development of Cuniform Characters.
This image has been taken from a book.

Place

W Asia; Iraq; southern Iraq

Cultural Affliation

Sumerian

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

LS.79969. to LS.80020. were found in the wooden slide box now numbered C416/.

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being "Asia; West Asia; Middle East", but the lanternslide is annotated as ‘Cunifomr characters’, the earliest known form of writing emerging in the Sumerian civilisation of southern Iraq. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [Source: www.mesopotamia.co.uk, JD 30/11/2009]