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

It is an accounting of the grains needed for different quantities of two grain products with the sum of the quantities of grains on the backside.