Ca. 1900-1650 BC An Old Babylonian rectangular cuneiform made of clay, completely inscribed on both sides with either a tax register or name list. Clay cuneiform tablets were small enough to be portable and durable when dried, clay tablets allowed for the transmission of information across time and space. Although different types of scrips and languages could be impressed into the clay using a reed stylus. This method of writing was most often used to create texts in the cuneiform script and Akkadian language. For reading: E. Sollberger, 'New Lists of the Kings of Ur and Isin', Journal of Cuneiform Studies 8, 1954, pp.135-6. Size: L:10.04mm / W:44.2mm ; 120g Provenance: Property of an East Sussex gentleman, purchased from private collection L.H, Staffordshire; formerly in a private collection since 1980.