Uruk Clay Tablet (Replica)

Clay Tablet with numbers and characters

3000 B.C.

The original of this colored plaster cast of an archaic clay tablet from Uruk, 3rd stage of development, is situated in the Erlenmeyer collection,

which today belongs to the State of Berlin. This is probably the most important tablet of this collection.

The tablet shows early characters and numerals representing a grain settlement.

This contains a list of various quantities of different grain products and the results of the calculation of the grain required to produce one of these products

(barley meal and malt).