Cuneiform tablet impressed with seals: administrative document inscribed in Achaemenid Elamite ca. 500 B.C. Achaemenid This tongue-shaped clay tablet is round on one side and straight on the other. An Elamite cuneiform text covers much of the surface; impressions of cylinder seals appear on the reverse and flat sides of the tablet. The impression on the reverse shows a hero holding a winged lion creature on either side of him by its hind leg. The impression on the flat side is difficult to make out, but may show a bearded man with long hair.The Elamite text reads:60 rams, 75 ewes, 20 intermediate (yearling) ewes, 25 male lambs, 25 female lambs:altogether 205 head of small livestock, alive(as/for?) allocation by Hindušbalance of the 21st year.This tablet was excavated at Qasr-i Abu Nasr, an archaeological site at Shiraz, Iran in 1935. In form, shape, and language, it closely resembles the tablets of the Persepolis Fortification Archive, a vast archive of over 15,000 tablets discovered

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Cuneiform tablet impressed with seals: administrative document inscribed in Achaemenid Elamite ca. 500 B.C. Achaemenid This tongue-shaped clay tablet is round on one side and straight on the other. An Elamite cuneiform text covers much of the surface; impressions of cylinder seals appear on the reverse and flat sides of the tablet. The impression on the reverse shows a hero holding a winged lion creature on either side of him by its hind leg. The impression on the flat side is difficult to make out, but may show a bearded man with long hair.The Elamite text reads:60 rams, 75 ewes, 20 intermediate (yearling) ewes, 25 male lambs, 25 female lambs:altogether 205 head of small livestock, alive(as/for?) allocation by Hindušbalance of the 21st year.This tablet was excavated at Qasr-i Abu Nasr, an archaeological site at Shiraz, Iran in 1935. In form, shape, and language, it closely resembles the tablets of the Persepolis Fortification Archive, a vast archive of over 15,000 tablets discovered

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