Details
AN UR III CLAY CUNEIFORM TABLET, with 18 + 38 lines of text, an inventory of garments and textiles with their weights, damage to reverse, in two halves, 11.9 x 5.5 x 2.5cm.; another, 29 lines, concerning the delivery of dead livestock over specific days of various months, loss to upper portion, circa 2100 B.C., 8.5 x 4.6 x 1.8cm.; another, 10 + 3 lines, a receipt for quantities of flour, loss of lower corners, circa 2030 B.C., 5 x 3.9 x 1.5cm.; another complete tablet with 6 lines of text, a receipt for a large quantity of flour, dating to the year in which the ship of Enki was caulked in pitch, reign of Shu-Sin, year 2, 2036 B.C., 3.7 x 3.4 x 1.5cm.; an Old Assyrian business letter with part of 16 lines of text from Titaya to Innaya, circa 1900 B.C., 2.9 x 3.3 x 1.2cm. max.; an Old Babylonian administrative document, a receipt for a quantity of barley with a witness, small loss to one corner, with an unusual abbreviated date formula for the reign of Sansu-iluna, year 7, 1743 B.C., 3.3 x 2.9 x 1.6cm., all said to be from Ur; and four shaved flint flakes, Palaeolithic period, 3 3/8in. (8.6cm.) long max., said to be from Jericho (10)