Banks, Edgar James, editor,
[Babylonian tablets, found at Drehem, Nippur.] *Cab.G.3.138
M8465 — No main card. — Nippurs
[Drehem? 2350 B.C.?] 2 tablets. Sizes, 1 1 inch; 1% X1% inches.
A typewritten description signed by Edgar J. Banks, and kept in the Ordering Department, reads as follows: No. 3.... Found at Drehem. A perfect tablet, small, with a butcher’s bill for one fat cow, killed for market and delivered on the 25th day of the month. Dated about 2350 B.C. No. 5.... Found at Drehem. A very perfect tablet of about the average size of the business document, and of the usual shape. The char- acters are unusually distinct. The inscription is a bill for one fat ox de- livered on the 21st day of the month. On one edge... is the numeral 1, to serve as a summary of the contents. The tablet is dated on the back about 2350 B.C.
This card was printea at the Boston Public Library, April 23, 1974. F — Babylon. Lang. Works in Baby-
 
lonian. — Banks, Edgar James, ed. — Inscriptions. Cuneiform.