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1. CUNEIFORM TABLETS IN THE BRISTOL PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Author

Jursa, Michael and Payne, Elizabeth E.

Subjects
*CUNEIFORM tablets, *CLAY tablets, *PUBLIC libraries
Abstract

The article talks about the cuneiform tablets at the Bristol Public Library in Bristol, Connecticut. These tablets were bought in 1921 from a man named Edgar J. Banks who was an antiquities dealer. The tablets were brought for conservation and translation in 2002 to the Yale Babylonian Collection. Eight of the tablets were shown in this article comprise six administrative documents from the third dynasty of Ur.

Published
2005
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2. The 5,000-year-old recipe.

Author

Jackson, Hayes

Subjects
*CLAY tablets, *CUNEIFORM writing
Abstract

Focuses on the clay tablets included in the Yale Babylonian Collection at the Yale University campus in New Haven, Connecticut. Information contained in the cuneiform writing in the clay tablets; Historical background of the Yale Babylonia Collections; Scholarly significance of the collection; Electronic cataloging of the collection.

Published
1997

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