Tablet with a cuneiform inscription: Loan of silver
Place made:Asia
Culture: Neo-Sumerian
Period: Ur III
Date: ca. 2026-2003 B.C.
Medium: Clay
Dimensions:
Tablet: 2 3/16 × 1 15/16 × 9/16 in. (5.5 × 5 × 1.5 cm)
Seal impression (text columns only): 1/2 × 15/16 in. (1.3 × 2.4 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Mrs. Scott M. Smith
Object number: 68.192.16
Inscribed: Tablet:
Obverse:
15 silver shekels,
at 5 shekels interest for 1 shekel,
from Lu-Sulguirá,
debt from Gududú was enforced.
Reverse:
Seal of Ur-Nungal.
Year Ibbi-Sin [was enthroned as] king.
Seal:
Column 1:
Shu-Sin,
powerful king,
king of Ur,
King of the four regions of the universe.
Column 2:
Ur-Nungal,
scribe,
son of Ur-Sará,
filing clerk,
your servant.
Trans. after García Recio 2021
Provenance: gift of Judith L. Smith (1929-2015), San Antonio, to the San Antonio Museum Association, 1968; transferred to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1994
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