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This tablet lists purchases of land by a man named Tupsikka, with payments made in baskets of barley. One transaction reads "The price of the field is 90 gur-sag-gal [21,600 liters] of barley; the additional payment is eight gur-sag-gal [1920 liters] of barley, 16 pounds of wool [and] 16 quarts of oil". Stone tablet, about 2400-2200 BCE. Excavated by Hormuzd Rassam at Dilbat, Southern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. Dilbat (modern-day Tell al-Deylam) was a minor Sumerian city. (The British Museum, London).
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Amin, O. S. M. (2016, October 24). Mesopotamian Tablet with Puchase Details from Dilbat. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/5865/mesopotamian-tablet-with-puchase-details-from-dilb/
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Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "Mesopotamian Tablet with Puchase Details from Dilbat." World History Encyclopedia, 24 Oct 2016, https://www.worldhistory.org/image/5865/mesopotamian-tablet-with-puchase-details-from-dilb/.
