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~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

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

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Economy·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

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

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Economy·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

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

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Economy·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

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

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Economy·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

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

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Economy·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- record of sale MET ME86 11 150

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Economy·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

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

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Economy·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

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

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Economy·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- sale of real estate MET ME86 11 443

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Assyrian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Economy·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

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

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Economy·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

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

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Economy·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

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

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Old Assyrian Trading Colony; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

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

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Old Assyrian Trading Colony; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform tablets, letter from Hammurabi

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Tablet listing the kings of Babylon; Foundation tablet; letter from Hammurabi, lapis lazuli cylinder

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Dagon Museum, Cuneiform document on clay tablet

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Dagon Museum, Downtown, Haifa, Israel The Museum is dedicated to the history of grain products מוזיאון דגון בעיר התחתית בחיפה שוכן במבנה המשרדים של ממגורות דגון. המ…

Economy·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Hattusa Bronze Tablet Cuneiform

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Bronze tablet from Çorum-Boğazköy dating from 1235 BC. Photographed at Museum of Anatolian Civilisations. This cuneiform document excavated at Hattusa in 1986 is th…

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Hittite Cuneiform Tablet- Legal Deposition(?)

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Tablet on display at the Oriental Institute , with the caption: Hittite Cuneiform Tablet: Legal Deposition(?) Baked clay Hattusha Late Bronze Age (13th century BC) A6004 A60…

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Jehoiachin Ration Tablet detail

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Administrative tablet from the South Palace of Babylon, dated from the reign of king Nebuchednezzar, list of rations of people feeded by the royal administration, i…

Economy·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

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

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: The oldest piece in the McDonald Rare Book Collection at OSU is a Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating approximately 2041 B.C. The fragile piece has a prosaic purpose,…

Economy·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Tablet and enveloppe Ashmolean 1930.407

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: A clay tablet and the enveloppe in which it was sent, with seal impression. Letter recording the dissolving of a business partnership. From ancient Kish, Old Babylo…

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Tablet BM131452

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay cuneiform tablet of a legal case before Saustatar, King of Mitanni, involving Niqmepa, King of Alalakh. Dated 1550BC-1400BC.

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Triangle geometrical tablet Ashmolean 1931 91

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay tablet with geometrical diagram of a triangle. Calculation of the area of the triangle, but the scribe got it wrong, cf. Robson, "Mathematical cuneiform tablet…

Astronomy & Mathematics

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Ur Bau tablet AO261 mp3h9041

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0 fr). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: .mw-parser-output table.commons-file-information-table,.mw-parser-output .fileinfotpl-type-information,.mw-parser-output .fileinfotpl-type-artwork{border:1px sol…

Economy·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

WML 51.63.177

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — WML 51.63.177. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

WML 51.63.178

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — WML 51.63.178. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

WO 08, 160-161

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — WO 08, 160-161. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.094

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.094. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.117

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.117. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.154

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.154. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Daily Life·Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.203

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.203. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.204

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.204. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.209

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.209. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Daily Life·Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.210

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.210. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Daily Life·Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.215

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.215. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & Myth·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.220

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.220. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & Myth·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.241

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.241. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.303

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.303. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & Myth·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.318

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.318. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.319

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.319. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YBC 06996

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YBC 06996. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YOS 10, 62

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YOS 10, 62. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & Myth·Astronomy & Mathematics

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YOS 15, 005

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YOS 15, 005. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YOS 15, 007

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YOS 15, 007. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YOS 15, 017

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YOS 15, 017. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Daily Life·Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YOS 15, 018

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YOS 15, 018. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Daily Life·Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YOS 15, 019

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YOS 15, 019. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Daily Life·Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YOS 15, 029

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YOS 15, 029. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Daily Life·Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YOS 15, 031

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YOS 15, 031. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Daily Life·Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YOS 15, 032

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YOS 15, 032. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Daily Life·Economy

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YOS 15, 033

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YOS 15, 033. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Daily Life·Economy

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