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Cuneiform Tablet From Turkey Records Furniture Sale
Archaeology Magazine ^ | July 25, 2024 | unattributed / editors

Posted on 07/28/2024 7:44:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

IFL Science reports that a cuneiform tablet unearthed in southern Turkey at the site of Eski Alalah, which is also known as the Aççana Mound, records the purchase of a large quantity of wooden furniture. The text, written in Akkadian, has been dated to about 3,500 years ago. The scribe recorded information about the sellers and buyers, said Mehmet Ersoy, Turkey's Minister of Culture and Tourism, in addition to describing the purchase of chairs, tables, and stools. "We believe that this tablet will provide a new perspective in terms of understanding the economic structure and state system of the Late Bronze Age," Ersoy said.

(Excerpt) Read more at archaeology.org ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: akkadian; cuneiform; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; johnflawhon; joshuadoore
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Tablet inscribed with the extinct Akkadian language, Eski Alalah or Aççana Mound, Alalah, Turkey
Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Culture and Tourism |
Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Culture and Tourism

1 posted on 07/28/2024 7:44:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

You wouldn’t leave that in your pockets, by accident.


2 posted on 07/28/2024 7:50:24 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: 240B; 75thOVI; Adder; albertp; asgardshill; At the Window; bitt; blu; BradyLS; cajungirl; ...
Won't they need that for the warranty?
The other GGG topics added since the previous digest ping, alpha:

3 posted on 07/28/2024 7:51:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Somewhere there’s a corresponding tablet that records when she sent the stuff back.


4 posted on 07/28/2024 7:53:40 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: SunkenCiv

What was a good wooden chair going for back then?


5 posted on 07/28/2024 7:55:52 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: SunkenCiv

They’re gonna change their name again to Tirkea.


6 posted on 07/28/2024 7:56:52 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Or “Unpainted Ankara.”


7 posted on 07/28/2024 8:00:40 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: SunkenCiv

‘Nothing new under the sun.’


8 posted on 07/28/2024 8:01:44 AM PDT by exPBRrat
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(there were no photos with this one, and it's from a much later ancient era, but from similar geography, so...)
A second, northern port has been discovered underwater at the 2,700-year-old site of the city of Parion, which is located on the coast of northwestern Anatolia, according to a Hürriyet Daily News report. "This port is a little smaller in size than the southern port, that is, the trade port, and its inner part is filled with alluvium accumulated by the stream passing through the city," said archaeologist Vedat Keleş of Ondokuz Mayis University. "Parion is a legion colony. Therefore, there may be a possibility that this place is a military port," he explained. Keleş and his colleagues plan to continue the investigation of the newly found port, in addition to the excavation of the city's agora and theater.
Second Port Discovered in Ancient Roman City | July 19, 2024

9 posted on 07/28/2024 8:04:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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Here are some links to articles which are likely topics in the coming week.

10 posted on 07/28/2024 8:09:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: HYPOCRACY

LOL


11 posted on 07/28/2024 8:11:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: silent majority rising

Instead of Adirondack, they called them Akkadaroundtheback.


12 posted on 07/28/2024 8:11:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: ComputerGuy

Or, when her husband the king found out how much she spent on it, he had her buried with it.


13 posted on 07/28/2024 8:12:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks, SunkenCiv.


14 posted on 07/28/2024 8:23:42 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: gundog
huffines
15 posted on 07/28/2024 8:26:30 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70
My pleasure.

16 posted on 07/28/2024 8:39:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Link that doesn’t freak over firewalls.

https://www.gbnews.com/science/archaeologists-discover-sales-receipt-turkey


17 posted on 07/28/2024 8:59:30 AM PDT by bgill
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To: SunkenCiv

By the time I got here today, all the good lines were taken. I’m going back to bed. Hmpf.

Thanks fer nuthin’.

‘Face

;o]


18 posted on 07/28/2024 8:59:57 AM PDT by Monkey Face ( ~~ We too can have our own pillar of light -- one ray at a time. ~~ Alexander Dushku ~~)
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To: SunkenCiv

It was a recliner. Some of those go way back.


19 posted on 07/28/2024 9:13:03 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: ComputerGuy

Another find says “Lost our lease!
Everything must go!”


20 posted on 07/28/2024 10:38:23 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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