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Excerpt from Sumerian Business and Administrative Documents From the Earliest Times to the Dynasty of Agade
London, 1910, p. 106. It is right that this tablet should also find a place in one of the permanent volumes of the Museum.
The other texts contained in this book are here published for the first time. They consist of the pay-rolls, contracts, receipts, etc., which re¿ect so faithfully the economic life of ancient Babylonia. One group contains a series of transactions of Nippur merchants. Of this class are Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 29, 33, and 76. Nos. 54, 55, 106, 128, and 129 are perforated labels.
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