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Artifact

Period

1 Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)

2 Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)

Material

3 clay

Artifact type

3 tablet or envelope > tablet

Provenience

1 Ešnunna (mod. Tell Asmar)

1 Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah)

1 no value

Museum Collections

3 British Museum, London, UK

Composite/seal

0 composite

1 composite witness

0 seal

0 seal impression

2 other

Textual

Language

1 Sumerian

2 no value

Genre

2 Legal > Business / Contracts

1 Literary > Literary letter and letter-prayer

Publication

Authors

3 Finkelstein, Jacob J.

1 Frayne, Douglas R.

3 Leichty, Erle V.

3 Walker, Christopher B. F.

Date of publication

3 1988

1 1990

Credits

Contributing project

1 Electronic Babylonian Library

2 Geomapping Landscapes of Writing

1 no value

Data

Artifact images

Chemical data

0 With

3 Without

External link

1 Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities

1 Electronic Babylonian Library

2 The British Museum Collection

1 The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature translations

1 The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature transliterations

Image Annotations

0 With

3 Without

Publications

3 With

0 Without

Transliteration

2 With

1 Without

Text Annotations

0 With

3 Without

Transcription

0 With

3 Without

Translation

0 With

3 Without

Translation Language