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Clay Cuneiform Tablet (sales contract of immovable)
| Collection number | 製153-2746 |
|---|---|
| Provenance | Mesopotamia |
| Period | Early Dynastic period |
| Date | ca. 2400 B.C. |
| Material | Clay |
| Dimension | 7.5×8.0×1.9 cm |
| Comment | This clay tablet is a sales contract of immovable written in cuneiform. A contract to buy and sell hundred forty four square meters of land for hundred forty kg of copper, five kg of wool and hundred forty four litters of barley is written in this document. The names of the person of ten several are enumerated other than the buyer and the seller. They are the people receiving the price for land and witnesses of this contract. The oldest writing system in human history was invented in Mesopotamia about 3000 B.C. At first, signs were pictographs, but changed to cuneiform when around 500 years passed. |
| Classification | clay tablet |
| Keyword | Brown,White Tiny Western Asia,Iraq Clay Document/Manuscript,Clay tablet Letter,Cuneiform |