Mesopotamian contract paperweight
Mesopotamian contract paperweight

Mesopotamian contract paperweight

CB500004
This paperweight is inspired by a sales act found in Shuruppak.

Writing was born in Sumer and Elam out of the need to record the wealth of the cities.

In the following centuries, scribes improved the invention. Around 2600 BC, writing was sufficiently developed to spawn the first known examples of...
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Characteristics

Artist
Anonymous
Material
Bronze
Themes
Literature, Made in France
Art movement
Oriental Antiquities
Reference
CB500004
EAN
3336727055489
Model dimensions
8cm x 7.6cm x 1.6cm
Package Dimensions
11.4cm x 11.4cm x 3.3cm
Conservation museum
Paris - Musée du Louvre

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