This set of cuneiform tablets contains documents dating from ancient Sumerian (Uruk III) to new Sumerian (Shulgi and Amar-suena). They are related to commercial trading, administrative archives and cosmetics recipes. Using the light mode to change the direction and angle of the light can enhance the reading of the text.
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