Tablet Recording a Business Letter to the Kanesh Colony

ca. 1840-1730 BCE (Assyrian Colony)

5.5 cm 6.3 cm 2.2 cm

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Finely impressed cuneiform covers all sides of this red clay tablet. Despite a bit of damage done to the face of the tablet, the letter from Ili-madar to the Kanesh colony can still be read. Ili-madar reveals that he is holding captive the suspect of a robbery and pledges to r...

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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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