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Vol. 5, No. 3, Spring 2010 Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC Cornerstone Newsletters Spring 2010 Vol. 5, no. 3, Spring 2010 Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/morrisnews_cornerstone Recommended Citation "Vol. 5, no. 3, Spring 2010" (2010). Cornerstone. Paper 19. http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/morrisnews_cornerstone/19 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Newsletters at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in Cornerstone by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Volume 5, Number 3 Spring 2010 The Newsletter of Morris Library • Southern Illinois University Carbondale Morris Library’s Cuneiform Tablet by Ann Myers, Special Cuneiform writing is the earliest known Collections Cataloger writing system in the world, emerging in the 34th century BC, and it was used he oldest item owned by Morris for over 3,000 years. Its characters could TLibrary is not a book by modern represent a number of different languag- definitions; it is a small clay tablet with es, but it was first developed from a form cuneiform writing. It would fit comfort- of hieroglyphics used by the Sumerians. ably in the palm of your hand, though These hieroglyphics had been carved it is in two pieces and cracked in other into stone, and used curved as well places, so we try to handle it as little as as straight lines. When the Sumerian possible. We believe the tablet dates from culture moved to Mesopotamia where 2400–2200 BC, and it was found in Senkereh, In This Issue also known as the biblical • Morris Library’s Cuneiform city of Larsa (modern Tablet day Tell as-Senkereh in Page 1 Iraq). • Message from the Dean Morris Library acquired Page 2 the tablet from Edgar J. • Katherine Dunham’s Banks, an early twenti- Haitian Legacy eth-century archaeolo- Page 4 gist. He was also a dealer in antiquities, buying • Library Is Seeking many cuneiform tablets Morris’ cuneiform tablet lives in a custom-made box that is in need of repair. See page 5. Page 3 & 6 and importing as many as 11,000 to the United • Focus on Library Faculty: States, where he sold them to universi- stone was less common, clay became the Jonathan Nabe ties and museums. He excavated Bismya, dominant writing material. The tools Page 7 or the lost city of Adab in 1903, was the used to impress marks in the clay made first American to climb Mount Ararat wedge-shaped marks which did not lend in 1912, and may have been the first themselves to curved lines, so the hiero- www.lib.siu.edu archaeologist to search for the Ark of the glyphic characters became more stylized, Covenant. His many adventures have led and eventually came to represent sounds some to speculate that he inspired the rather than ideas. 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