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Title: Administrative tablet: grant of land to a temple official (?)
Period: Jemdet Nasr
Date: ca. 3100–2900 BCE
Geography: Mesopotamia
Culture: Sumerian
Medium: Steatite or chlorite
Dimensions: 3 7/8 × 4 1/16 × 1 5/16 in. (9.9 × 10.3 × 3.4 cm)
Credit Line: Lent by The General Theological Seminary
Object Number: L.1988.89
