![“The Great Fatted Bull” (Tablet #36) — damaged Sumerian cuneiform tablet, ancient Mesopotamia, c. 4000 BCE [288×431]](https://preview.redd.it/95dct5ryva2h1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=bdebea05a033d53838fd650bc1755c619a84051c)
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“The Great Fatted Bull” (Tablet #36) — damaged Sumerian cuneiform tablet, ancient Mesopotamia, c. 4000 BCE [288×431]
This damaged 4,000-year-old tablet — “The Great Fatted Bull” — contains dark comedy, political satire and what has been interpreted as one of history’s earliest murder mysteries hidden in Sumerian cuneiform.
Source: https://www.sumerianshakespeare.com/xpages01/introduction
u/SumerianMerchant — 1 day ago