Harvard Art Museums > 1983.104: Cuneiform Tablet: Old Assyrian Legal Text Tablets Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Cuneiform Tablet: Old Assyrian Legal Text , 1983.104,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 22, 2025, https://hvrd.art/o/289228. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1983.104 Title Cuneiform Tablet: Old Assyrian Legal Text Classification Tablets Work Type tablet Date c. 1900-1750 BCE Period Bronze Age, Middle Culture Assyrian Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/289228 Physical Descriptions Medium Clay Technique Impressed Dimensions 3 x 2.8 x 1.2 cm (1 3/16 x 1 1/8 x 1/2 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Nanette Rodney Kelekian, New York, formerly in the possession of her father Charles Dikran Kelekian; gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1983. State, Edition, Standard Reference Number Standard Reference Number CDLI P393103 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Nanette B. Rodney Accession Year 1983 Object Number 1983.104 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Originally square shaped pink clay tablet with cuneiform writing. The tablet is inscribed with ruled lines of text written in the Old Assyrian dialect of the Akkadian language. About 3/4 of the tablet is preserved with the upper right corner missing. Tablet is inscribed on both sides and upper, lower and left edges. There are no seal impressions. The tablet probably comes from the trading colony (karum) by the mound of Kültepe (ancient Kanesh) near Kaiseri in Cappadocia (central Anatolia). A key part of the beginning of the text is missing, but the text records at least two separate transactions. The first (lines 1-8) concerns the payment by the writer of the tablet ("I paid") for something [broken] entrusted by Ikupi-[...] to Ishar-beli, the gardener, followed by the name of a witness. The second records the writer of the tablet giving 4 minas of antimony to Ilabrat-[...]. The remaining lines are likely the witnesses to this transaction. IMAGE: Top row, middle tablet. Publication History Deena Ragavan, “Cuneiform Texts and Fragments in the Harvard Art Museum / Arthur M. Sackler Museum”, Cuneiform Digital Library Journal (2010), no. 6.8 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
