Sumer: Media
ancient region, Iraq
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Sumerian cuneiform tablet
Sumerian cuneiform tablet, probably from Erech (Uruk), Mesopotamia, c. 3100–2900...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Purchase, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gift, 1988, 1988.433.1, www.metmuseum.org
decorated columns by the Sumerians
Columns decorated in the early 3rd millennium bce...
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz
diorite statue with Sumerian inscription
Sumerian inscription, detail of a diorite statue of Gudea of Lagash, 22nd century...
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Ancient symbols for 1 and 10
Examples of ancient symbols for the numbers 1 and 10.
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