# Ashmolean Museum, Oxford · Place

> museum; holds the Oxford share of the Jemdet Nasr tablets. In Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk.

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# Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

museum; holds the Oxford share of the Jemdet Nasr tablets

[Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform)[51.7554° N, 1.2600° W]

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford is a museum in the record of Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk, placed to about 100 m.

One artifact in the record is tied to it, including The Jemdet Nasr tablets (MSVO 1).

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Placed from Wikipedia / Wikidata Q636400 coordinates · Placed to about 100 m[Open the mystery's map](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform#map)

## In the mysteries

**Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk**

museum; holds the Oxford share of the Jemdet Nasr tablets

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform)

## Nearby within 500 km

[Ashmolean Museum, Oxford](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CQAGJ640Z23/ashmolean-museum-oxford)

museum

here

[Bodleian Libraries, Oxford](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D367PBY2SXG/bodleian-libraries-oxford)

library

here

[West Woods](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CRWP6A60DYV/west-woods)

sarsen field

53 km SW

[Durrington Walls](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CRWP62C71ZD/durrington-walls)

henge

72 km SW

[Woodhenge](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CRWPEC01PF0/woodhenge)

timber circle and henge

73 km SW

[Old King Barrows](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CRWPFK21R5Y/old-king-barrows)

round barrow cemetery

74 km SW

## Artifacts 1

[The Jemdet Nasr tablets (MSVO 1)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/artifacts/ART0DEDRFF9SPJ7/the-jemdet-nasr-tablets-msvo-1)

Document

ART

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Ashmolean Museum, Oxford [Place PLC0DEDNXZYWVW0]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/PLC0DEDNXZYWVW0
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Key

**PLC** 0DEDNXZYWVW0

Record

Place

Kind

Museum

Position

51.7554° N, 1.2600° W

Precision

About 100 m

Placed from

Wikipedia / Wikidata Q636400 coordinates

In

[Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform)

Version

1

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[ Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q636400)

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