Cuneiform Tablet, Medical Text Fragment
by Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Cuneiform Tablet, Medical Text Fragment
Artist
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Photograph - Photograph
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Cuneiform tablet. Fragment of a medical text. Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th-7th century B.C. Mesopotamian culture. Proto-cuneiform is the name given to the earliest form of writing -- pictograms that were drawn on clay tablets. Gradually, the pictograms became abstracted into cuneiform (Latin, "wedge-shaped") signs that were impressed rather than drawn. At its greatest extent, cuneiform writing was used from the Mediterranean coast of Syria to western Iran and from Hittite Anatolia to southern Mesopotamia. It was adapted to write at least fifteen different languages.
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