The prisms are an important record of the Sumerian language. They are believed to be from around 1800BC. They are now part of the Ashmolean museum's collection in Oxford. In the 1920s Sir Leonard ...

Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is now extinct. This tablet has writing on both sides detailing how Enlil-izu and Ahi-Sin gave a temple a number of animals to cover 4 months dues.