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

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