Packet G: Tossup 7

A collection of these objects excavated in Iran was named in a lawsuit by survivors of a bombing in Jerusalem demanding that the University of Chicago sell them. (10[1])Otto Neugebauer and Abraham Sachs evaluated the mathematical significance of one of these objects called Plimpton 322. (10[4]-5[1])A man (10[2])named (10[1])Azi produced (10[1]-5[1])these objects for a site (-5[2])excavated by Paolo Matthiae at Ebla. (-5[2])Children were trained (10[1])to create these objects at (10[1])places called (10[1])eduba. (10[1])Austen Henry (10[2])Layard and Hormuzd Rassam (-5[1])discovered two collections of these objects (10[1])that were brought to the British Museum from (10[1])Mosul. (10[3]-5[3])A fire during (-5[1])the destruction (10[2])of Nineveh (10[2]-5[1])preserved (10[1])a massive (10[1])collection (10[2]-5[1])of these (10[1]-5[1])objects (10[7]-5[8])established (-5[2])by Ashurbanipal. (-5[3])For (-5[1])10 points, (-5[3])what kind of objects (10[2]-5[1])recorded Sumerian texts (10[1]-5[1])like the Epic (-5[1])of (-5[1])Gilgamesh? (10[2])■END■ (10[33]0[6])

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