This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...
This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for workers ... system of pictographs into a flexible medium with which the Sumerian (unrelated to anything) and Babylonian (related to modern ...