English: Cuneiform tablet recording a silver payment, from the Ebabbar archive. Ebabba is the name of the ancient temple of the sun-god Shamash in the city of Sippar, in Babylonia. Hundreds of administrative texts from this temple were found, many of them recording such expenditures from the institution. Silver was the main mean of exchange during this period. Edition and translation: I. Spar and M. Jursa, Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Volume IV: The Ebabbar Temple Archive and Other Texts from the Fourth to the First Millennium B.C., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Eisenbrauns, 2014, pp. 151-152 (text no. 97).
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English: Cuneiform tablet recording a silver payment, from the Ebabbar archive. Ebabba is the name of the ancient temple of the sun-god Shamash in the city of Sippar, in Babylonia. Hundreds of administrative texts from this temple were found, many of them recording such expenditures from the institution. Silver was the main mean of exchange during this period. Edition and translation: I. Spar and M. Jursa, Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Volume IV: The Ebabbar Temple Archive and Other Texts from the Fourth to the First Millennium B.C., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Eisenbrauns, 2014, pp. 151-152 (text no. 97).
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