“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