Oriental Institute
| Title | Oriental Institute |
| View | Nippur Expedition 46 |
| Series | III: Events |
| Description | Drawing of an image from a seal of 1400 BCE displaying early agriculture techniques of seeding and plowing employed by Sumerians. The farming methods are similar to those described in a 3,700-year old farm bulletin written in Sumerian on a clay tablet, which a joint expedition of University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania archaeologists to the city of Nippur in Iraq discovered in the 1950s. |
| Subject Terms | Agriculture, Ancient--Iraq | Seals, Ancient--Iraq | Cuneiform tablets | Nippur (Extinct city)--Antiquities | Drawings (Visual works) | Excavations (Archaeology)--Iraq |
| Photograph Date | 1951-02-12 |
| Physical Format | Photographic prints; 12.7 x 17.7 cm |
| Collection | Archival Photographic Files |
| Repository | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center |
| Image Identifier | apf3-01698 |
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