Tablet Recording a Business Letter

ca. 1840-1730 BCE (Assyrian Colony)

6.7 cm 4.9 cm 2.7 cm

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This thick rectangular clay tablet is broken at the bottom and damaged on its face, but is otherwise covered in cuneiform text. This complex text is a letter from Buzutaja in Kanesh to Puzur-šadue, Aššur-[...and], Pušuken in Assyria regarding the imprisonment of another man wh...

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Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Caesarea]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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