A.D. Humbert Collection of Clay Tablets

Displayed on the main floor of the E.Y. Berry Library-Learning Center, this collection consists of 15 original clay tablets in cuneiform script from the Tigris-Euphrates Valley. The time periods represented range from 2500 B.C. to Nebuchadnezzar year 20, month 9, day 10.

Tello (ruin of the city of Lagas.) Gudea [ca 2200 B.C.]. Votive cone. The Text reads "For Nigirsu, the powerful warrior of Enlil, Gudea,ruler of Lagas, has accomplished a proper things, his (temple) E-ninnu-anzu-birbir has built and restored to its place.