LOT 0238 Scribal Practice Tablet
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19th-16th century BC. A ceramic scribal practice tablet with sixteen lines of cuneiform text; the same text appearing on both flat faces allowing reconstruction of the original, a practice model contract reading (after editing): obverse '[x units] of dates / from Ri.../ Shu .../ received / in month II / the dates and their interest / at the prevailing rate of the land / 10 kor' reverse '[x units] of dates of good quality ... / [from name] ... received ... / in month II / the dates and their interest / at the royal rate / he will weigh out / [...]'; supplied with a collector's note. 136 grams, 76mm (3"). Property of a London gentleman; formerly in a private Swiss collection, acquired from L'étoile d'Ishtar Galerie d'Archeologie in the 1980s.
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