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Tablet 1: Translation by Banks
No. 1. Found at
Drehem, a suburb of Nippur, where there was a receiving station for the temple
of Bel. The inscription is a bill for 7 lambs and 4 kid goats delivered on the
4th day of the month. It is dated in the last three lines about 2350
B.C., or early in the Ur dynasty of kings who ruled from about 2400 to 2100
B.C.
Tablet 2:Translation by
Banks
No. 2. Found at
Drehem. A record of the receipt of five oxen apparently for the temple
offerings. Dated about 2350 B.C.
Also on one edge is written
"5 oxen".
Tablet 3:Translation by
Banks
No. 3. Found at
Jokha, the ruin of the ancient city of Umma in Central Babylonia. This
is a typical record of the temple offerings. After the tablet was
written, and while the clay was still soft, the temple scribe rolled over the
entire tablet his cylindrical stone seal and the seal impression made it
impossible to change the record. The seal impression bears in raised
characters the name of the scribe and of his father. It is dated about
2300 B.C.
Tablet 4:Translation by
Banks
No. 4. Found at
Drehem. A temple record, sealed and dated about 2300 B.C.
Tablet 5:Translation by
Banks
No. 5. Found at
Senkereh, the ruin of the Biblical city of Elassar mentioned in Genesis
14:1. This is a first Babylonian dynasty tablet with an inscription
containing a contract or business document. It is dated about the time
of Hammurabi, King of Babylon about 2000 B.C. This king was a
contemporary of the Biblical Abraham.
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