Tablet

55-21-248

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Babylonian

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Object Number 55-21-248
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Locus TA 184, level XA 1
Period Early Old Babylonian Period
Date Made 2000-1900 BCE
Section Babylonian
Materials Clay
Inscription Language Akkadian Language
Description

Legal text. sale. Sale of a house plot; PN1 and PN2 sell a 1 2/3 sar house plot and a 1 sar kislah plot to PN3 and PN4 for 8 shekels of silver; witnesses; bur-gul seal; 16x11 lines. See CDLI for transliteration info and line art (hand drawing of inscription).

Height 9.7 cm
Width 5.4 cm
Credit Line University Museum-University of Chicago/Oriental Institute Expedition, 1955
Other Number P257369 - CDLI Number | UM 55-21-248 - Other Number | 3N-T 98 - Field Number

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