Culinary tablet

3D Model

Old Babylonian culinary tablet with Akkadian recipes for 25 stews.

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale Babylonian Collection, Catalog No. BC.018709 (Original Catalog No. YBC 4644)

3D featured in the exhibit Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks at the Yale Peabody Museum 6 April 2019 – 30 June 2020.

Stews from this tablet were studied, cooked & served at An Appetite for the Past at NYU in May 2018. For more info, please see: Martell, B. What did ancient Babylonians eat? In Yale News, 14 June 2018.

3D featured in the exhibit Ik kook, dus ik ben. / I cook, therefore I am. at Wereldmuseum Rotterdam 30 February - 30 July 2017.

Scanned & processed by Yale IPCH Digital Imaging Specialist Chelsea Alene Graham using Artec Space Spider and Artec Studio Professional in 2016. Geometry uploaded at 0.3 mm resolution.