tablet

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Object Type: tablet
Museum number: 131236
Description: Clay tablet; letter from Nanni to Ea-nasir complaining that the wrong grade of copper ore has been delivered after a gulf voyage and about misdirection and delay of a further delivery; slightly damaged; 23 + 25 + 3 + 2 ll.
Cultures/periods: Old Babylonian
Production date: 1750BC
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Sir Leonard Woolley
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Ur (historic - city)
Materials: clay
Dimensions: Height: 11.60 centimetres; Thickness: 2.60 centimetres; Width: 5 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Figulla & Martin, UET V / Letters and business documents of the Old Babylonian period (81); Oppenheim A L 1967a / Letters from Mesopotamia (12 (pp.82-83))
Location: On display (G56/dc24)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2000, London, Brunei Gallery SOAS, 'Traces of Paradise: Archaeology of Bahrain'
Condition: Fair; slightly damaged.
Acquisition name: Division of Finds: Department of Antiquities of Iraq
Acquisition date: 1953
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 131236
Registration number: 1953,0411.71
Additional IDs: Excavation/small finds number: U.16814a (excavation number)
Conservation: Treatment: 23 Oct 2009; Treatment: 14 Sep 1989

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