Old Babylonian Terracotta Cuneiform Tablet For the Sale of a Palm Grove during the Reign of Nur-Adad King of Larsa

1865-1850 B.C.

2 1/4 in. (52 grams, 56 mm).

A pillow-shaped tablet, with cuneiform text on the broad faces and an edge, reading:

'50 sar of orchard, planted with palm trees, next to Kunia, next to Amurutu, on the first small side:
Rabutum. Sîn-pilah bought from Huzalum. He paid him its full price of 1/3 silver mine. He swore in the
name of Nur-Adad the king that no one would constest in the future.
In front of Itišumum
In front of Sinennam

Before Sugalum
Before Kurušum
Before Awīl-Amurrim the scribe
In the month of šabatu, the year Nur-Adad (offered) a throne of justice (?) ...'

Provenance

Ex private collection.
with Bonhams, Antiquities, London, 21 October 1999, no.260 (Part).
Private central European collection.

Accompanied by copies of the relevant Bonhams catalogue pages.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12244-219769.

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