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English: Cuneiform tablet recording a silver payment, from the Ebabbar archive. Ebabba is the name of the ancient temple of the sun-god Shamash in the city of Sippar, in Babylonia. Hundreds of administrative texts from this temple were found, many of them recording such expenditures from the institution. Silver was the main mean of exchange during this period. Edition and translation: I. Spar and M. Jursa, Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Volume IV: The Ebabbar Temple Archive and Other Texts from the Fourth to the First Millennium B.C., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Eisenbrauns, 2014, pp. 151-152 (text no. 97).
Date circa 605–562 B.C. (Neo Babylonian Period - Reign of king Nebuchednezzar II)
Medium clay
medium QS:P186,Q42302
Dimensions height: 3.7 cm (1.4 in); width: 5.4 cm (2.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,3.71U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,5.41U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art (not on view)
Accession number
86.11.429
Object history
English: from Mesopotamia
Français : Provenance : Mésopotamie
Credit line purchase, 1886
Source/Photographer http://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322056

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