Tablet
Envelope
2003-46-4
From: Iraq
Curatorial Section: Babylonian
| Object Number | 2003-46-4 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sumerian |
| Provenience | Iraq |
| Date Made | ca. 750 BCE |
| Section | Babylonian |
| Materials | Clay |
| Iconography | Receipt | Date | Kid |
| Description | Sealed Sumerian document (tablet probably in envelope) recording the receipt of 2 gur (close to 15 bushels) dates and (probably) a kid, dated in the year when King Rim Sin of Larsa destroyed the city Isin (about 750 BC) shortly before Sumer was conquered by Babylonia. |
| Length | 6 cm |
| Width | 3 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1995.x.16135 - Other Number | Mes.-5 - Other Number |
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