Description:

Ancient Near East, Babylon, Middle Babylonian Period, ca. late 2nd millennium BCE. A hand-built clay administrative tablet of a rectangular form with flat peripheries and slightly convex faces. The surfaces of the tablet display thirteen lines of cuneiform script formed by impressing a sharpened reed or stick into the still-wet clay just before undergoing the firing process, and mold-pressed cuneiform panels are visible along areas of the periphery. When translated this tablet reads, "one-half mina of silver bearing interest, from Ili-ba… Belanum, son of Shiriaja(?), has received. … he will repay. Witnesses: Ili-ba- … (son of) Shiriaja." Size: 1.5" W x 1.6" H (3.8 cm x 4.1 cm).

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-private New York, USA collection

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  • Condition: Minor abrasions and nicks to corners, peripheries, and faces, with softening to some impressed cuneiform characters, and light encrustations, otherwise intact and very good. Light earthen deposits throughout.

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