...now, if they can just find the table & chair set, and figure out where the shop was...
www.smithsonianmag.com
Researchers have discovered that a clay tablet found in Turkey is actually a 3,500-year-old receipt, on which someone recorded a furniture sale. Written in cuneiform—an ancient Middle Eastern script—the record details a purchase of wooden tables, chairs and stools by an unknown buyer.
Excavators discovered the tablet during construction work in Reyhanlı, a southern Turkish city near the border with Syria, according to a translated statement by the country’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
As Mehmet Ersoy, minister of culture and tourism, says in the statement, the newly discovered tablet sheds light on the economic and state systems of Late Bronze Age Anatolia, the land between the Black and Mediterranean seas that’s now occupied by Turkey. Measuring just over an inch and a half long and weighing less than an ounce, the tablet dates back to the 15th century B.C.E.
Researchers Decipher Cuneiform Tablet—and Discover It’s a Furniture Receipt
The small clay rectangle is engraved with an ancient Semitic language known as Akkadian
Researchers have discovered that a clay tablet found in Turkey is actually a 3,500-year-old receipt, on which someone recorded a furniture sale. Written in cuneiform—an ancient Middle Eastern script—the record details a purchase of wooden tables, chairs and stools by an unknown buyer.
Excavators discovered the tablet during construction work in Reyhanlı, a southern Turkish city near the border with Syria, according to a translated statement by the country’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
As Mehmet Ersoy, minister of culture and tourism, says in the statement, the newly discovered tablet sheds light on the economic and state systems of Late Bronze Age Anatolia, the land between the Black and Mediterranean seas that’s now occupied by Turkey. Measuring just over an inch and a half long and weighing less than an ounce, the tablet dates back to the 15th century B.C.E.
