File:Stone tablet, land purchase, from Dilbat, Iraq. 2400-2200 BCE. British Museum.jpg
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English: Stone tablet, the cuneiform inscription is about a land purchase by a man named Tupsikka. From Dilbat, Iraq. 2400-2200 BCE. British Museum, London. The payment was made in of baskets of barley. One transaction reads " the price of the field is 90 gur-sag-gal [21000 liters] of barley; the additional payment is 8 gur-sag-gal [1920 liters] of barley, 16 pounds of wool, [and] 16 quarts of oil". Excavated by Hormuzd Rassam. Museum number: 22460. |
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