16527O | 1953,0411.62
| Description (Archival): | Description Clay tablet with seventeen and eighteen and two and two lines of inscription; letter; Old Babylonian; nearly complete; reverse damaged. Inscriptions Inscription Type: inscription Inscription Script: cuneiform Inscription Comment: letter from Ea-nasir and Ilushu-illasu to Shumun-libshi and Sipparum-pater encouraging the addressers not to fear the arrival of two other men, advice is given to take both of them to the Shamash temple and make them take an oath. Dimensions Length: 3.5625 inches Width: 2 inches Condition Fair; nearly complete; cracked or repaired; salt deposit |
| Description (Catalog Card): | [A-I] 9 Clay tablets. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] (A) Babylonian letter to: Su-mu-um-li-ib-si and UD.KA.BAR-... From: E-a-na-sir & Ilu-su-ellat-su. H.C. 30/X,1. (B)... UET/V:689; (C)....; (D)..., UET/V:65; (E)...; (F)...; (G)...; (H)...; (I)... (O)...,UET/V:721 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | AH: No. 2 Church Lane : prob No. 1 Old St. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Clay2 |
| [1] Typed Transcription from BMCard |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
| [3] Data collected by British Museum research team. |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Unknown | Woolley did not list a location. | (none) |
| No. 2 Church Lane | The house was much ruined; it had been destroyed by fire in antiquity, the north side of the site had been denuded by water action, part of it had been dug, probably by Arab seekers after treasure, and the holes made were filled with clean drift sand; most of the walls had been removed and could often be traced only by the edges of the pavements and it was only along the south side of the building that the brickwork stood to any height. In spite of this it was possible to recover nearly all the ground-plan. The house had been a large one; the party walls between its rooms had had three courses of brickwork but those facing on the courtyard (3) had had eleven or more, and the door-jambs as many as fourteen; the burnt bricks in the walls were of the typical Larsa type, light yellow in colour, often with a bright red face, 0.27-0.28 m. X 0.18 m. X 0.09 m, and in the pavements were bricks of three types, 0.30 m. sq., 0.25 m. sq. and 0.27-0.28 m. X 0.18 m. X 0.09 m. The outer NW corner was rounded (implying that a lane branched off from Church Lane at this point) and the SW corner had been cut off diagonally to make easier the turn of the street. Against the south side of the house, beyond Church Lane, there was what appeared to be an open yard. | (none) |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ur Excavations Texts V: Letters and Documents of the Old-Babylonian Period | Ur Excavations Texts V: Letters and Documents of the Old-Babylonian Period | 1953 | Figulla, H.H., Martin, W.J. | (none) |
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