Tablet and Envelope
Tablet and Envelope
Place of OriginNeo-Babylonia
DateLate 6th century BCE
DimensionsH: 7.8 cm; W: 2.8 cm; Depth: 1.6 cm
MediumEarthenware with impressed inscription.
ClassificationUtilitarian Objects
Credit LineGift of William A. Gosline, Jr.
Object number
1935.8A-B
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Label TextTranslation: This tablet of Kidin to Kurbanni-Marduk, my father, may Nabu and Marduk bless my father. Now, see, I formerly [wrote] concerning Kalba who owed the wool to my father and the scribes which Kalbachad brought to my Lord via Nabu-amme and the laborers who were with them. Fifty talents worth of wool to Nabu-amme he gave. The payment along with the wool he handed over.- Sculpture
Neo-Sumerian (Ur III), fourth year of the reign of King Amar-Sin, 2024 BCE
586 BCE, 18th Year of King Nebechadnezzar
Neo-Babylonian period
Third Dynasty of Ur (about 2112-2000 BCE)
Ur III, year 1 of King Amar-Sin of Ur (2046-2038 BCE)
Ur III (about 2100-2000 BCE), Year 7 of King Amar-Sin
Ur III, 6th year of King Amar-Sin of Ur (2046-2038 BCE)
about 1865 BCE, reign of Sin-kasid of Uruk, Old Babylonian Period (1894-1595 BCE)
2047 BCE, 47th Year of King Shulgi (2094-2047 BCE), Third Dynasty of Ur (about 2112-2000 BCE)
2037 BCE, 1st year of King Shu-Sin (2037-2029 BCE), Third Dynasty of Ur (about 2112-2000 BCE)
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