Tablet Recording a Business Letter

ca. 1840-1730 BCE (Assyrian Colony)

4.4 cm 4.8 cm 1.7 cm

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This square clay tablet is densely covered on all sides in a cuneiform text that was read from left to right. The tablet is a business transaction and details the trade of precious metals that occurred between Assyria and Kanesh. In the letter, Itur-ili in Assyria instructs En...

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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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