Cuneiform tablet: Utukku lemnutu, tablet 12, Seleucid, ca. late 1st millennium B.C., Mesopotamia, probably from Babylon (modern Hillah), Seleucid, Clay, 2 1/8 x 1 x 3/4 in. (5.4 x 2.4 x 2 cm), Clay-Tablets-Inscribed, The invention of writing in approximately 3300 B.C. was one of many developments in administrative technology--including the use of geometric tokens for counting and cylinder seals to guarantee transactions--that accompanied the growth of the first cities and states in southern Mesopotamia
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Cuneiform tablet, Utukku lemnutu, tablet 12, Seleucid, ca, late 1st millennium B.C, Mesopotamia, Babylon, modern Hillah, Clay, 2 1/8 x 1 3/4, 5.4 2.4 2 cm, Clay-Tablets-Inscribed, invention, writing, approximately 3300, B.C, developments, administrative technology, geometric tokens, counting, cylinder seals, guarantee transactions, accompanied, growth, first cities, states, southern Mesopotamia
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