tablet

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Object Type: tablet
Museum number: 92551
Description: Clay tablet; complete; sale of a slave girl; seals; Old Babylonian.
Authority: Ruler: Ammisaduqa
Regnal date: 3/7/3
Cultures/periods: Old Babylonian
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Sippar (historic) (?)
Materials: clay
Dimensions: Length: 1.875 inches; Width: 3 inches
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Leichty E et al 1988a / Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, volume VIII: Tablets from Sippar 3 (p.150)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: From: Sir Ernest A T Wallis Budge
Acquisition date: 1888
Acquisition notes: Acquired by the British Museum as a result of Budge's second mission to Egypt and Mesopotamia in 1887-1888; the mission was intended to investigate the "leakage" of tablets from sites supposedly guarded on behalf of the British Museum. Further notes on acquisition and bibliographic references relating to acquisition in catalogue introduction pp.xv-xvii.
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 92551
Registration number: 1888,0512,Bu.234

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