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Columbia University Cuneiform Collection, circa 3100 BCE - 2018 CE, bulk circa 3100 BCE - 539 BCE 62.5 Linear Feet (30 artifact boxes, 3 half-document boxes, and one standard document box)

Columbia University
The collection consists of 624 cuneiform tablets (dating from circa 3100-539 BCE), and some ancient clay objects. Accompanying these are some twentieth century casts, and a collection of catalogs of the collection, articles about various parts, especially Plimpton 322, and correspondence about the tablets, including a number of letters, mostly from Edgar J. Banks, to George A. Plimpton, and others about tablets now in the Columbia collection.
  1. Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorial Collection, 2020 2.42 Linear Feet (1 document box and 1 OS flat box (20 x 24)) 157 Megabytes (136 jpeg files)

Columbia University

A collection of items left by members of the Columbia community, as well as some local community neighbors, in tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg following her death on September 18, 2020. The contents include notes, letters, posters, flowers and objects. Also includes 136 digital images of the memorial at Alma Mater as well as at Ginsburg's portrait in the Law School taken by the University Photographer, Eileen Barroso

  1. Columbia University Archives