Show YEARS OLD I 1 writings writing daling bac bacat as far as 2000 0 care C are translated Trin slated by university of wisconsin professor iBor A number ot of tablets writ ten at least ns nr early as 2000 B R C have been tran translated dated toy hy prof P F T kelly ot of the department of semitic languages at the university of wis coasin or of about thirty cones colles kind and tablets tran almost all were lists of animals anil and men tile the Surn erlan tablets ure ill di to read as the writing is a combination of w wedges edges used in nr ar range ments to form words null and the gra construction Is no not t like ilka eliat of any other hin language I 1 most 1 I ost of the tablets are arc dated hy by eor relating thera them with certain well known events such as the year a certain city was wag devastated or tile the year a king was crowned the contract tablets are mostly lists of commodities such as 1 mostly lists of commodities such as the following one cow received from garcua tall lah tile the farmer one cow exchanged for the donkey of sixteen sheep exchanged for the donkey of one gur ton ten qa of grain eatables bread received tor for a sacrifice sacrificial feat feast of raki at eroch erech the donkey of er dr was captured alive at the year the king devastated Ila knurl |