A Purchase Contract from the Time of Samsu-Iluna

THE CASE tablet published here belongs to the A. W. Lane Museum of Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Professor J. H. Hicks, curator of that museum, has permitted its publication. According to the statement furnished by the seller of the tablet, it comes from a ruin called Abu-Jamous, near Babylon, where but few tablets have been discovered. The text is a common purchase contract for real estate and follows the usual scheme: description of the boundaries of the property sold, mention of the parties, price, oath by the gods, witnesses, and date. However, the text has some peculiarities worthy of notice

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