AUTHENTIC MESOPOTAMIAN CUNEIFORM TEXT on a VESSEL SHARD, ca.2500 B.C. VERY RARE

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AUTHENTIC MESOPOTAMIAN CUNEIFORM TEXT on a VESSEL SHARD, ca.2500 B.C. VERY RARE:
$386.04

EXTREMELY RARE MESOPOTAMIAN POT SHARD. circa 1500-2500 B.C.E.
displaying one of the first forms of writing in human history.
CUNEIFORM SCRIPT
3500-4500 Years old
approximately10 cm length.
Ex-German collection. A copy of the previous ownersCertificate supplied and my own C.O.A. supplied.

Cuneiformis a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians

of Mesopotamia c. 3500-3000 BCE. It is considered the most significant

among the many cultural contributions of the Sumerians and the greatest

among those of the Sumerian city of Uruk which advanced the writing of

cuneiformc. 3200 pot shard is curved with the grooves formed during manufacture

easily recognisable on the inner side of the fragment. Wonderful example

set in clay of the earliest writing, on what may have been an offering vessel

or storage jar holding some commodity traded at that time. Only a small

portion of the recovered Cuneiform tablets and fragments have been deciphered

as there are a very small number of experts able to do so. If you click on the

link to wikipedia above it explains quite well the enormity of the task ahead of

those experts. In general the tablets are written trade contracts of varying types.

Use of Cuneiform ceased around 100 BCE.