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Babylonian Economic Document
Uruk (in present-day Iraq), ca. 549 BC (Neo-Babylonian; Ur III)
(2.9 x 4 x 1.6 cm)
This small tablet was part of the economic archives of the temple of the sky-god Anu and fertility-goddess Ishtar at Uruk. It records the stipend paid to Ardi-Inninni, son of Ibni-Ishtar of the business firm of Bel-ili on the 2nd day of the month of Tebet in the 6th year of the reign of King Nabonidus (ca. 549 BC).