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Objects with cuneiform writing

Baked clay foundation cone with cuneiform writing, end of the 3rd millennium B.C.

Baked clay foundation cone with cuneiform writing, end of the 3rd millennium B.C.

© Musée du Louvre

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Material
Ceramics | Stone
Type
Utensils and vessels | Sculptures
Details
Cones and any other object with cuneiform writing (bricks, prisms, vases, sculpture, etc.). Most common are clay cones roughly 15 cm long with a flattened head (disk-shaped).
Red List
Emergency Red List of Iraqi Antiquities at Risk
Countries
Iraq
Period
Pre-Islamic