Tablet Recording a Business Letter

ca. 1840-1730 BCE (Assyrian Colony)

5.7 cm 5.3 cm 1.7 cm

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This square, red clay tablet is densely covered on all sides in a cuneiform text that was read from left to right. The tablet records a business transaction between Luzina in Kanesh and Miššu-rabi and Ennum-Aššur in Assyria. Miššu-rabi and Ennum-Aššur are sending materials to...

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17515
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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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en
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