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| Keywords: Turkish - Cappadocian Tablet - Walters 481465 - View A.jpg This brown clay tablet is unglazed ca 2100 BC Old Assyrian clay cm 5 1 6 7 accession number 48 1465 10009 Dikran Kelekian Paris and New York claims found at Caesarea Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1913 Translation From Buzutaja to / Puzur-szadue Aszszur- Puszuken / Because of the of the man / I confronted the city here and I got a tablet of the City / adressed to the primary assembly of the colony which they bring it to you / Therefore you should listen to the tablet of the City / and you must confront the colony and have it established that it was the primary assembly of the colony / and not I who threw him into jail / My dear brothers take care and get hold of a tablet / of the Kanesz colony and a message from / the Puruszaddum colony indicating that he cheated the Kanesz colony and sold the iron / in Puruszhaddum For that reason the primary assembly of the colony / threw him into jail Take care / to the palace / / which I gave to the palace and to the palace / held me back and 2 minas of silver to / live; and for the orders of the palace when I stayed / in jail you sold textiles for me / When the iron and the textiles were sold in Aszszur-malik / Kurub-Isztar his brother Aszszur-imitti son of Ikkupija / Puzur-szadue and Aszszur-makik son of Luzina were my witnesses / When the money was paid Ammurumbani Szu-Kubum / son of Aszszur-bel-awatim Aszszur-malik son of Alahum / Puzur-szadue and Aszszur-malik son of Luzina / went up to the palace together with me and I paid the money / they are my witnesses Seize the men and lead them to the Gate of the God / in accordance with / / / of the iron he brought / he said also take the iron / of my partners the iron / and I will take / I personaly will our gate / which I gave to him Puzur-szadue place of origin Cappadocia Turkey Walters Art Museum license Ancient Near East art in the Walters Art Museum Art from Turkey Cuneiform on clay tablets Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
