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Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET vsx706 4a

Cuneiform tablet- quittance for a loan in copper MET ME66 245 18a

Cuneiform tablet- quittance for a loan in silver MET DP162272

Cuneiform tablet- ration list MET ME11 217 16

Cuneiform tablet- ration list MET ME11 217 26

Cuneiform tablet- ration list MET ME11 217 5

Cuneiform tablet- receipt by proxy for silver, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 20

Cuneiform tablet- receipt for barley, Esagilaya archive MET ME86 11 207

Cuneiform tablet- receipt for rent payment, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 9

Cuneiform tablet- receipt for silver, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 3

Cuneiform tablet- receipt of silver for a wash-bowl MET ME86 11 219

Cuneiform tablet- record of expenditures of silver, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 107

Cuneiform tablet- record of sale MET ME86 11 150

Cuneiform tablet- record of silver for purchase of animals, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 218

Cuneiform tablet- record of silver for supplies, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 234

Cuneiform tablet- sale of real estate MET ME86 11 443

Cuneiform tablet- slave sale, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 13

Cuneiform tablet- slave sale, Egibi archive MET ME86 11 145

Cuneiform tablet with a small second tablet- private letter MET DP-13441-020

Cuneiform tablet with a small second tablet- private letter MET DP-13441-021

Cuneiform tablets, letter from Hammurabi

Dagon Museum, Cuneiform document on clay tablet

Hattusa Bronze Tablet Cuneiform

Hittite Cuneiform Tablet- Legal Deposition(?)

Jehoiachin Ration Tablet detail

Numerical tablet Khafaje OIM A21310

Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating approximately 2041 B.C. Is a receipt for the donation of livestock to the feast for a Sumerian king

Tablet and enveloppe Ashmolean 1930.407

Tablet BM131452

The Newly Discovered Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Meeting Humbaba, with Enkidu, at the Cedar Forest. The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan

Triangle geometrical tablet Ashmolean 1931 91

Ur Bau tablet AO261 mp3h9041

WML 1963.188.2

WML 1963.188.5

WML 1963.188.6

WML 51.63.017

WML 51.63.049

WML 51.63.075

WML 51.63.085

WML 51.63.096

WML 51.63.102

WML 51.63.158

WML 51.63.176

WML 51.63.177

WML 51.63.178

WO 08, 160-161

X.3.093

X.3.094

X.3.095

X.3.096