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Title: Cuneiform tablet: house sale contract, Quradum archive
Period: Akkadian
Date: ca. 2350–2150 BCE
Geography: Mesopotamia, probably from Sippar (modern Tell Abu Habba)
Culture: Akkadian
Medium: Clay
Dimensions: 8 x 8.4 x 2.3 cm (3 1/8 x 3 1/4 x 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchase, 1886
Accession Number: 86.11.204
“Sign, Symbol, Script: an Exhibition on the Origins of Writing and the Alphabet.” State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Milwaukee Public Museum, Texas Memorial Museum, Austin, Arizona Museum of Science and Technology, Phoenix, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Fort Worth, Texas, Horn Archeological Museum, Berrien Springs, Michigan, Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver, Colorado, Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, 1983–1985.
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