국립중앙박물관 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF KOREA

Administrative account with entries concerning malt and barley groats

Pillow-shaped clay tablet impressed on both sides with early Sumerian cuneiform signs. Many of the earliest texts from Mesopotamia were used for economic documentation, using a combination of numerical signs and
pictographs to record basic transactions. This tablet totals quantities of barley groats and malt for someone called KUSIM, likely a brewer.