Semitic Babylonian contract-tablet

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Editorial entry — translation cited from: Wikimedia Commons file: File:Semitic Babylonian contract-tablet.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASemitic_Babylonian_contract-tablet.jpg. 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 cas

Scholarly note

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source 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 t

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Image: Photograph by Messrs. Mansell & Co. — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Semitic Babylonian contract-tablet.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASemitic_Babylonian_contract-tablet.jpg. 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 cas.

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