Kish tablet
Sumerian proto-writing (Late Uruk period)
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The Kish tablet is a limestone tablet found at the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Kish in modern Tell al-Uhaymir, Babylon, Iraq. A plaster cast of the tablet is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, while the original is housed at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad.[1][2] It should not be confused with the Scheil dynastic tablet, which contains part of the Sumerian King List and is also sometimes called the Kish tablet.[3]
| Kish tablet | |
|---|---|
Plaster cast of the tablet | |
| Material | Limestone |
| Created | c. 3500 BC |
| Discovered | Babylon, Iraq |
| Present location | Iraq Museum, Baghdad, Iraq |
The signs on the Kish tablet, possibly related to proto-cuneiform, are purely pictographic, and have not been deciphered or demonstrated to correspond to any currently known human language. It has been dated to the Uruk period.[4][5][6]
