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Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET vsx706 4a

Cuneiform tablet- quittance for a loan in copper MET ME66 245 18a

Cuneiform tablet- quittance for a loan in silver MET DP162272

Cuneiform tablet- ration list MET ME11 217 16

Cuneiform tablet- ration list MET ME11 217 26

Cuneiform tablet- ration list MET ME11 217 5

Cuneiform tablet- receipt by proxy for silver, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 20

Cuneiform tablet- receipt for barley, Esagilaya archive MET ME86 11 207

Cuneiform tablet- receipt for rent payment, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 9

Cuneiform tablet- receipt for silver, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 3

Cuneiform tablet- receipt of silver for a wash-bowl MET ME86 11 219

Cuneiform tablet- record of expenditures of silver, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 107

Cuneiform tablet- record of sale MET ME86 11 150

Cuneiform tablet- record of silver for purchase of animals, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 218

Cuneiform tablet- record of silver for supplies, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 234

Cuneiform tablet- sale of real estate MET ME86 11 443

Cuneiform tablet- slave sale, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 13

Cuneiform tablet- slave sale, Egibi archive MET ME86 11 145

Cuneiform tablet with a small second tablet- private letter MET DP-13441-020

Cuneiform tablet with a small second tablet- private letter MET DP-13441-021

Cuneiform tablets, letter from Hammurabi

Dagon Museum, Cuneiform document on clay tablet

Hattusa Bronze Tablet Cuneiform

Hittite Cuneiform Tablet- Legal Deposition(?)

Jehoiachin Ration Tablet detail

Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating approximately 2041 B.C. Is a receipt for the donation of livestock to the feast for a Sumerian king

Tablet and enveloppe Ashmolean 1930.407

Tablet BM131452

Ur Bau tablet AO261 mp3h9041

WML 51.63.177

WML 51.63.178

WO 08, 160-161

X.3.094

X.3.117

X.3.154

X.3.203

X.3.204

X.3.209

X.3.210

X.3.215

X.3.220

X.3.241

X.3.303

X.3.318

X.3.319

YBC 06996

YOS 15, 005

YOS 15, 007

YOS 15, 017

YOS 15, 018