Iraq is retrieving rare artifacts from the United States

[yota691]

Iraq is retrieving rare artifacts from the United States

Friday 06 December 2019 149

 

Washington / Zina Ibrahim

 

The Iraqi embassy in the United States received three hundred artifacts, which the Iraqi government loaned about a hundred years ago, to a US university at the time for the purpose of restoring it and reading its contents.

And private sources told Al-Sabah that between 1922-1934, archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania discovered thousands of broken clay tablets in the ancient city of Ur, near the city of Nasiriyah. The sources pointed out that "the panels, which are more than four thousand years old, were loaned temporarily to the university by the Iraqi government for the purpose of restoring them and reading their contents, after nearly a hundred years have passed since the Iraqi embassy in Washington received 300 pieces, to be returned about three thousand pieces Another soon. " According to the specialists, these artifacts represent commercial transaction receipts, similar to modern credit cards, and reflect part of the bureaucratic system of the Third Ur dynasty. Experts say: These receipts were no longer needed after years of use, so the Sumerians owners decided to use them as pillars to build a temple, and for this most of these fragile clay tablets have been broken and broken. 

 The Iraqi embassy in Washington received these pieces, to be shipped to their original place in the Iraqi Museum in the capital, Baghdad.

[yota691]

Iraq receives the first meal of plates and breaks the nail in Washington

Editing Date: 9/12/2019 10:03 • 107 times read

(Baghdad: Al Furat News) The Republic of Iraq to Washington received the first meal of the plates and broke the cuneiform tablets loaned to the University of Pennsylvania Museum.

The handover ceremony took place in the presence of an elite group of archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Zaid al-Rawi, representing Baghdad University / College of Arts / Department of Archeology, the Eastern Institute of the University of Chicago, academics, diplomats, and representatives of the US Department of State.
The Chargé d'Affairs d'Affair Abdul-Razzaq Jalil signed the handover on behalf of Ambassador Farid Yassin, and Richard Zettler, Head of the Near East Archeology Department, signed on behalf of the University's Museum.
It is worth noting that the number of cuneiform tablets received by the embassy (387) has been loaned to the University of Pennsylvania Museum from the Iraqi Museum on 22/2/1923 to the University of Pennsylvania Museum, and it is one of the excavations of the joint archaeological season between the British Museum and the mentioned university (1922-1934). ) In the Ur / Tal al-Muqair area. is over

[jeepguy]

On ‎12‎/‎7‎/‎2019 at 7:34 AM, yota691 said:

"the panels, which are more than four thousand years old, were loaned temporarily to the university by the Iraqi government for the purpose of restoring them and reading their contents,

after 100 years  they did finally figure out what was the inscription on the pieces , "  this is  PEPSI  "  NOT  COKE ! 

some of the pots also  had  " return for a deposit "     ----------    sorry folks  couldn't help myself

[horsesoldier]

But the left handed Falafel 🥙 stretcher stays here.

[trident]

Middle East

Iraq repatriates 387 ancient historical artifacts from the US

Hiwa Shilani |

December 08-2019     05:53 PM

 

 

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An ancient Mesopotamian tablet with cuneiform script inscribed. (Photo: Archive)

 

Iraq US Iraq Museum Ancient Artifacts

 

 

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Iraq’s Ministry of Culture announced on Sunday that it had repatriated 387 ancient historical tablets of clay from the University of Pennsylvania Museum in the United States.

The collection consists of clay tablets with cuneiform script inscribed. A team of archeologists from the University of Pennsylvania and the British Museum unearthed the artifacts.

“The fragments were 4,000 years old and were excavated from the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur during expeditions between 1922 to 1934, which were transferred to the Penn Museum at the time and stayed there for study,” the Ministry of Culture said in a statement.

Following “intensive efforts during the past months to retrieve the historical artifacts,” they will be delivered to the Iraqi embassy in Washington, DC, on Friday. Once they arrive at the embassy, the artifacts, along with thousands of other ancient artifacts that were recovered and stored at the embassy, will be shipped to Iraq for delivery to the Iraqi museum, the statement added.  

Brad Hafford, an archeologist at Penn Museum, said the tablets were shipped out for study “because no one in Iraq, at the time, could read them.”

According to Hafford, the stone tablets were records of economic transactions, which provided “insight into what goods were traded, where they came from, and how items were valued relative to one another and to amounts of silver.”

Iraq’s Ministry of Culture also said the University of Pennsylvania Museum would initiate a filed expedition in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur, reconstructing damaged artifacts and temples and provide training for the staff at the Nasiriyah Museum.      

Editing by Karzan Sulaivany

December 08-2019     07:24 PM

 

[Rugbylaird19]

I know it's 4000 years old but it looks like a memo from the Central Bank saying that they're going to RV soon.

 

[horsesoldier]

27 minutes ago, Rugbylaird19 said:

I know it's 4000 years old but it looks like a memo from the Central Bank saying that they're going to RV soon.

 

 

There’s a new time line definition of Soon I didn’t see coming - SOON = 4000 years 😢

[md11fr8dawg]

2 hours ago, horsesoldier said:

 

There’s a new time line definition of Soon I didn’t see coming - SOON = 4000 years 😢

 

I think you broke the code my friend!!