This tiny 4,000-year-old cuneiform tells a big story about past civilizations.
Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era city located in present-day Turkey.Researchers have deciphered parts of the Akkadian cuneiform and determined the tablet to be, essentially, a receipt for a major furniture purchase.Continued study of the tablet should help to shed light on the economic and administrative processes of the time period.
The initial readings of the tablet’s Akkadian cuneiform include details of a major furniture purchase. Linguists are still working through the writing, according to the ministry’s statement, but the deciphered lines detail purchases of an ample number of wooden tables, chairs, and stools. The experts are slowly putting together more information about the buyers and sellers involved with the exchange, making headway towards deciphering a window into the city’s economic processes.
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