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Babylonian clay tablet
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cuneiform tablet

c 2500 BCE

This Babylonian clay cuneiform tablet, or brick book, from Ur of the Chaldees in the Middle East is a receipt for barley.

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Letter from Barbara Hepworth to Herbert Read, 8 May [c.1968]
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth to Herbert Read, 8 May [c.1968]

Hepworth, Barbara Dame (1903-1975)

6 May [c.1968]

Letter begins: 'My dearest Herbert How wonderful to hear from you.' Hepworth asks Read and Margaret Read to dinner and mentions forthcoming events in her diary. Individuals mentioned in the lette...

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