Round 6: 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. (10[1]-5[1])A man named Azi produced these objects for a site (-5[1])excavated by Paolo Matthiae at Ebla. Children were trained to create these objects at places called eduba. (10[1])Austen Henry Layard and Hormuzd Rassam discovered two collections of these objects that were brought to the British Museum from Mosul. (10[1])A fire during the destruction of Nineveh preserved a massive collection of these objects (10[1]-5[1])established by Ashurbanipal. For 10 points, what kind of objects recorded Sumerian texts like the Epic of Gilgamesh? ■END■ (10[4])

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