Oriental Institute
| Title | Oriental Institute |
| View | Nippur Expedition 14 |
| Series | III: Events |
| Description | Tablets of Sumerian literary and lexical texts, several hundred complete or fragmentary, were discovered in 1952 by a joint expedition of the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania at the city of Nippur in Iraq. The tablets were scattered along one wall of a room presumed to be the quarters of scribes. |
| Subject Terms | Nippur (Extinct city)--Antiquities | Scribes (People) | Cuneiform tablets--Iraq | Sumerian language--Texts | Excavations (Archaeology)--Iraq |
| Photograph Date | 1952-06-26 |
| Physical Format | Photographic prints; 16.8 x 11.5 cm |
| Location | Iraq |
| Collection | Archival Photographic Files |
| Repository | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center |
| Image Identifier | apf3-01667 |
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