Early dates in WorldCat

The older dates didn't seem to be working properly in WorldCat Identities, so I've been looking at records in WorldCat with early dates.  In our March 2007 copy of WorldCat there are 828 records with BCE dates.  Since there are only 7,500 records with a date of 1450 or earlier, it can be difficult to find Identities records with early dates, especially since many of the very early materials described are things like mummy cloths or coins or tablets without a clear name associated with them for Identities.

For sharing, I made a WorldCat list of the ten oldest items I found.  Here is an edited version:

Storage jar

Type: Visual Material : 3-D object Internet Resource

[between 2655 and 2330 BCE]

Mummy cloth fragment

Type: Book : Thesis/dissertation/manuscript Archival Material

[ca. 3400 B.C.]

[Hoffman tablet].

by Eugene Augustus Hoffman; General Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.); St. Mark's Library (General Theological Seminary). E.A. Hoffman Collection.

Type: Visual Material : 3-D object

[ca. 3000 B.C.]

[Cuneiform tablets; representing business documents in use about 2350-538 B.C.]

Type: Archival Material

[n.d.]

Cuneiform tablet collection of Smith College, 2700-500 B.C.

Type: Archival Material

[Babylonian temple record ; a receipt of cattle and sheep for the temple service.

by Dungi, King of Ur; Edgar James Banks

Type: Visual Material : 3-D object

[ca. 2350 B.C.]

[Babylonian tablets; representing business documents in use about 2400-2350 B.C.].

Type: Archival Material

[Babylonian clay tablets].

Type: Visual Material : Projected image Archival Material Internet Resource

[ca. 2400-2350 B.C.]

Amphora

Type: Visual Material : 3-D object Internet Resource

[between 4800 and 3300 BCE]

Account for the delivery of goods

Type: Book

[ca. 3000 B.C.]

We'll have those BCE dates in Identities working properly soon.

--Th