[H-TT31] New development of environmental traceability methods

[HTT31-P17] Compositions of Mesopotamian tablet clay for identification of source area

*Ryo ANMA¹, Chikako WATANABE², Kicheol SHIN³, Yoshiaki KON⁴, Akihiro TSUJI⁵, Takanori NAKANO³, Yoriko YOKOO⁶ (1.University of Tsukuba, 2.Osaka Gakuin University, 3.RIHN, 4.AIST, 5.National Museum of Nature and Science, 6.Doshisha University)

Keywords:clay tablet, composition, isotope

Clay tablets are excavated from all over Mesopotamia and some contain date of issue. Thus, if we can decode information on paleo-environment from grains and microfossils included in the tablet clay, the use of the clay tablet wold be greatly widen. However, many tablets are stored in the museums in West Asia without any information of the excavated sites. In this paper, we report results of compositional analyses on the tablet clay using material stored in the Slemani Museum, Iraq, aiming to understand where they were made.