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SUMERIAN TABLETS.-The Manchester Museum has published copies of all of the "Behrens Collection "of Sumerian tablets excepting three, which are defaced and consequently useless. The complete collection contains 50 tablets from Drehem and Umma. The Drehem tablets, eight in number, tally in subject matter with the many others from this site which have been published, and deal with the daily business of Drehem. They contain records of animals for offerings. The Umma tablets belong to the same class, recording the daily details of the administration of animals, barley, and other products, wood, silver, and copper. As these tablets are contemporary, they afford a valuable source of information on Sumerian life and religion, while also serving to check the grammatical and religious texts composed later in Sumerian by authors who were not Sumerians, and when Sumerian had ceased to be the language of the people.
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Research Items. Nature 119, 99–100 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119099a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119099a0