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Tablet Fragment

Object Number:CBS2272
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: Iraq
Nippur
Archaeology Area: Tablet Hill E. side of Shatt en-Nil
Locus: Tablet Hill
East side of Shatt en-Nil
Period: Old Babylonian Period
Date Made: 1900-1600 BCE
Early Date: -1900
Late Date: -1600
Section:Babylonian
Materials:Clay
Iconography:Business
Inscription Language:Sumerian Language
Credit Line:Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I,1889
Other Number:P259305 - CDLI Number
B2272 - Old Museum Number
CBS 02272 - Other Number

Description

Half-baked clay. Reverse is uninscribed. Business document. Dynasty of Larsa ?

Literary text fragment. Letter from Ishbi-Erra to Ibbi-Sin. (ETCSL 3.01.17, CDLI Composite: Q000557). Literary Letters: Puzur-Numushda to Ibbi-Sin and Ishbi-erra to Ibbi-Sin?; 18 lines.

Bibliography:

[Catalogue, Exhibition] Aruz, Joan. 2003. Art of the First Cities: The Third Millenium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus.. New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 469View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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