CIRCA 1768 B.C.

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A COMPLETE OLD BABYLONIAN CUNEIFORM CLAY TABLET AND ENVELOPE FRAGMENT
CIRCA 1768 B.C.
The tablet with 30 lines of text relating to the movement of 19 workers, dated to the 15th day of the 5th month of the 55th year of Rim-Sin I, King of Larsa, repaired; and a small fragment of the envelope giving the day of the month, and with impression of the scribe's cylinder seal
47/8 X 2½ in. (12.5 X 6.4 cm.)

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This is illustrated on the right side on page 171. It has been wrongly labelled as lot 318.

Lot Essay

This well-preserved administrative document is of a rare type telling of the movement of a group of 19 workers. The first two lines explain the subject of the document, a list of the 19 workers is then given followed by a more formal statement about the move of the workers explaining it was done by their own free will and finally comes the date.

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