Artist Name Unknown Title Cuneiform Tablets from Assyrian Trading Post Date circa 1875-1840 B.C. Place Made Anatolia Collection Area Art of the Middle East: Ancient Medium Clay Dimensions 2 1/2 x 2 in. (6.35 x 5.08 cm) Credit Line Herbert R. Cole Collection.
Assyrian is dead language that has not been spoken for two millennia.
If you were rich and lived in Assyria or Egypt 2000 BC (4000 years ago) you could send a letter even to another country (Empire).
