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Description Semitic Babylonian Contract-tablet. Inscribed in the reign of Hammurabi with a deed recording the division of property. The actual tablet is on the right; that which appears to be another and larger tablet on the left is the hollow clay case in which the tablet on the right was originally enclosed.
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Source L.W. King - H.R. Hall, History of Egypt Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, XIII.C, London, 1906.
Author Photograph by Messrs. Mansell & Co.
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