This paper presents some considerations and experiences about the use of geomatic techniques in surveying and representing small archaeological artifacts, such as cuneiform tablets and other inscribed objects with cuneiform writing. Scanning by hand-guided structured light scanner and image processing on the 3D models permits a wider range of possibilities in respect to classical surveying methods and can help to improve the readability of the text.

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sculpted dish from Tello, of which the Louvre fragment AO 153 was part, 1 was inscribed along its circumference with a dedicatory inscription in Sumerian. Unfortunately, only a very small portion of the original text is preserved (see Fig. 1); it reads: [. . .]dù-a / nam-ti-la-né-šè / a mu-n[a-ru], "[. . . he] who built [. . . ,] has [presented it] for his own life."The first excavators of Tello attributed the object in question to the reign of Sulge ("Shulgi"), 2 and an * I would like to thank Béatrice André-Salvini and Ariane Thomas, respectively Director of the Department of Near Eastern Antiquities and Curator of the Mesopotamian Section of the Louvre, Paris, and Eric Gubel, Head of the Department of Antiquity of the Royal Museum of Arts and History, Brussels, for granting me permission to publish the objects whose photos are reproduced in this article. The images were provided by Edoardo Loliva and Nicolò Marchetti. François Desset made the copy of the inscription on AO 153. Glenn Magid revised my English. My gratitude goes to all of them.The abbreviations used in this article are those of The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (Chicago, 1956(Chicago, -2010.1 Published by F. Desset et al., "A Sculpted Dish from Tello Made of a Rare Stone (Louvre-AO 153)" in the present issue of JNES, pp. 71-84.2 E. de Sarzec and L. Heuzey, Découvertes en Chaldée (Paris, 1884-1912), 232. For the more accurate reading /sulge/ of the name that has customarily been transcribed as Šulgi or Shulgi, see G. Marchesi, "Who Was Buried in the Royal Tombs of Ur? The

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