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The 2019 book Tablets From the Irisaĝrig Archive mentions the scandal in its analysis of more than one thousand cuneiform tablets, possibly stolen from Irisaĝrig, a 4,000-year-old lost city in Iraq. [23] The tablets, purchased by Hobby Lobby, were studied over a four-year period while in the company's Oklahoma storerooms.
The collection holds Babylonian clay tablet YBC 7289 (c. 1800–1600 BC). [1] The tablet displays an approximation of the square root of 2 . Comprising some 45,000 items, the Yale Babylonian Collection is an independent branch of the Yale University Library housed on the Yale University campus in Sterling Memorial Library at New Haven ...
There have been other similar discoveries in the region, including another cuneiform tablet that details the purchase of an entire city (and, presumably, the furniture in it), which was uncovered ...
The Nebo-Sarsekim Tablet is a clay cuneiform inscription referring to an official at the court of Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon. It may also refer to an official named in the Biblical Book of Jeremiah. It is currently in the collection of the British Museum.
Archaeologists found a 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with a massive furniture order in cuneiform writing. The artifact surfaced after earthquakes occurred in Turkey.
Assyriology (from Greek Ἀσσυρίᾱ, Assyriā; and -λογία, -logia), also known as Cuneiform studies or Ancient Near East studies, [1] [2] is the archaeological, anthropological, historical, and linguistic study of the cultures that used cuneiform writing. The field covers Pre Dynastic Mesopotamia, Sumer, the early Sumero-Akkadian city ...
The entry for IM 67118 includes Taha Baqir's hand copy of the tablet and photographs of the tablet. MS 3179; MS 2192; MS 2192 at the Schøyen Collection. YBC 7359 at the Yale Babylonian Collection. Lion de Tell Harmal (IM 52560), début du IIe millénaire, containing a photograph of the reverse of the tablet and photographs of artifacts from ...
The tablet's whereabouts between 1939 and 2017 are unknown, but it featured in the civil forfeiture case United States of America v. Approximately Four Hundred Fifty Ancient Cuneiform Tablets and Approximately Three Thousand Ancient Clay Bullae, as part of the larger trove recovered from Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. , and the chain store's attempts ...