Tablet

Classification/Broad: Writing

Classification/Specific: Tablet

Material/Broad: Clay

Material/Specific: Clay (Clay)

Measurements: 52X41X22 MM

Description: Tablet inscribed in Old Akkadian script with a record of a loan of silver and barley, and the disbursal of a ration of barley, wool, and oil. The tablet is well-preserved save for a chip of the lower-left corner that is missing. A certain Ṭāb-ahī received (imhur) 14 shekels of silver and 3,840 liters (or 4,800 liters if the Akkad-gur was used) of barley as a loan (ana hubullim). Further recorded are 680 (or 800) liters of barley, 5 minas of wool, and [x] liters of oil as a ration ([a-na] ŠE.BA) for Tamtalik and his children. This tablet was purchased in 1930, but internal evidence and comparison with excavated tablets proves that it must have come from Tell Asmar (ancient Ešnunna). It probably dates to the reign of either Narām-Sîn or Šar-kali-šarri.

Region: Diyala

Country: Iraq

Place/site: Tell Asmar

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Period: Akkadian

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Dynasty: Dynasty of Akkad

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Inscribed: Yes

Inscription Sequence Number: 1

Inscription Language: Akkadian Language

Script: Cuneiform

Dialect: Old akkadian

Inscription Description: CUNEIFORM

Inscription Subject: silver and barley loan and barley, wool, oil rations

Inscription Type: Administrative

Inscription Location: Obverse and Reverse

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Registration Number: A7815

Accession Number: 1034

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