English: Limestone tablet engraved with pictographic writing. It comes from the mesopotamic city of Kish (
Iraq), dated from 3 500 BC. It is drawn in real size, approximately. Probably, it is the earliest known evidence of writing, and contains pictographs of heads, feet, hands, numbers and threshing-boards. Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford (
United Kingdom).
Español: Tablilla de piedra grabada con escritura pictográfica procedente de la ciudad mesopotámica de Kish (
Irak), datada en el 3 500 adC. Dibujada a tamaño natural, aproximadamente. Probablemente es el vestigio más antiguo conocido de escritura; y consta de pictogramas que representan cabezas, pies, manos, números y trillos. Se conserva en el Departamento de Antigüedades del Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford (
Gran Bretaña).
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The Kish tablet is a limestone tablet found in Iraq, inscribed with proto-cuneiform signs dated to ca. 3500 BC; considered the world's oldest known written document
{{es}}Tablilla de piedra grabada con escritura pictográfica procedente de la ciudad mesopotámica de Kish (Irak), datada en el 3 500 adC. Dibujada a tamaño natural, aproximadamente. Probablemente es el vestigio más antiguo conocido de escritura; y cons
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