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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.

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, 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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