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Cuneiform tablet- fragment of a text containing incantations MET vsz86.11.448

Cuneiform tablet- fragment of an account MET ME62 70 98

Cuneiform tablet- fragment of an account MET vs62 70 96

Cuneiform tablet- fragment of an account record (?) MET vs86 11 467a

Cuneiform tablet- fragment of an Emesal prayer MET vsz86.11.476a

Cuneiform tablet- fragment of barley rations list, Ebabbar archive MET vs86 11 438

Cuneiform tablet- hymn to Marduk MET DP360674

Cuneiform tablet impressed with cylinder seal impression- field sale MET ME86 11 328

Cuneiform tablet impressed with cylinder seal- loan of silver MET ME11 217 15

Cuneiform tablet impressed with cylinder seal- receipt of silver MET ME1973 25 2

Cuneiform tablet impressed with cylinder seal- tax receipt MET ME86 11 104

Cuneiform tablet impressed with scaraboid (?) ring seal- receipt for gold MET ME86 11 160

Cuneiform tablet impressed with stamp seal- receipt, Esagilaya archive MET ME86 11 380

Cuneiform tablet impressed with three cylinder seals- record of slave sale MET ME86 11 320

Cuneiform tablet impressed with two cylinder seals- loan of barley MET ME86 11 245

Cuneiform tablet- inventory account, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 113

Cuneiform tablet- loan of silver MET DP-13441-009

Cuneiform tablet- loan of silver MET hb66 245 17a a

Cuneiform tablet- loan of silver MET hb66 245 17a b

Cuneiform tablet- loan of silver MET hb66 245 17b a

Cuneiform tablet- loan of silver MET hb66 245 17b b

Cuneiform tablet- loan of silver MET ME66 245 14a

Cuneiform tablet- loan of silver MET ME86 11 224

Cuneiform tablet- loan of silver MET vs54 117 27b

Cuneiform tablet- memorandum of receipt for silver, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 35

Cuneiform tablet- petition, prayer for a king MET ME86 11 399

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

Dagon Museum, Cuneiform document on clay tablet

Jehoiachin Ration Tablet detail

Numerical tablet Khafaje OIM A21310

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

The Newly Discovered Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Meeting Humbaba, with Enkidu, at the Cedar Forest. The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan

Triangle geometrical tablet Ashmolean 1931 91

Ur Bau tablet AO261 mp3h9041