3RD-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
Details
A GROUP OF SIX CUNEIFORM CLAY TABLETS
3RD-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
Comprising an Old Akkadian administrative tablet, lightly baked, with 15 + 18 + 19 + 19 lines of text, concerned with issues of beer and bread as rations, repaired, circa 2250 B.C., 2½ x 3½ in. (6.8 x 9 cm.); an Old Babylonian tablet, 21 lines of text, an economic document mentioning the messenger Marduk-mushallim, worn, 1750 B.C., 1 3/8 x 1½ in. (3.5 x 3.8 cm.); another tablet, 9 lines of text, itemising rations for five named workmen, with Babylonian names, reverse uninscribed, 1¾ x 3 1/8 in. (4.5 x 7.8 cm.); another, with 9 lines of administrative text concerning workmen, reverse uninscribed, 1½ x 1 7/8 in. (3.8 x 4.9 cm.), both circa 1700 B.C.; a Late Babylonian archival text with 23 lines of text concerning livestock, obverse with rubbed surface, reign of either Artaxerxes I or II, Year 28, 5th-4th Century B.C., 2¼ x 1 7/8 in. (5.7 x 4.7 cm.); and a fragment of a Sumerian brick incised with part of 4 lines of text, a dedication probably by King Kurigalzu II (1332-1308 B.C.) (6)
3RD-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
Comprising an Old Akkadian administrative tablet, lightly baked, with 15 + 18 + 19 + 19 lines of text, concerned with issues of beer and bread as rations, repaired, circa 2250 B.C., 2½ x 3½ in. (6.8 x 9 cm.); an Old Babylonian tablet, 21 lines of text, an economic document mentioning the messenger Marduk-mushallim, worn, 1750 B.C., 1 3/8 x 1½ in. (3.5 x 3.8 cm.); another tablet, 9 lines of text, itemising rations for five named workmen, with Babylonian names, reverse uninscribed, 1¾ x 3 1/8 in. (4.5 x 7.8 cm.); another, with 9 lines of administrative text concerning workmen, reverse uninscribed, 1½ x 1 7/8 in. (3.8 x 4.9 cm.), both circa 1700 B.C.; a Late Babylonian archival text with 23 lines of text concerning livestock, obverse with rubbed surface, reign of either Artaxerxes I or II, Year 28, 5th-4th Century B.C., 2¼ x 1 7/8 in. (5.7 x 4.7 cm.); and a fragment of a Sumerian brick incised with part of 4 lines of text, a dedication probably by King Kurigalzu II (1332-1308 B.C.) (6)
Provenance
Formerly in the De Groote collection, Belgium.
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