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Tablets are numbered 2-5, and can be identified by handwritten numbers on the edges of the tablets. All tablets are contained in the same box, which also contains number labels. Tablet no. 2 measures 3 x 3 cm and is tan-red. Tablet no. 3 measures 3 x 4 cm and is tan-red. Tablet no. 4 measures 2.5 x 2.5 cm and is light tan-gray. Tablet no. 5 measures 4 x 4 cm and is tan-red with dark brown/black areas.

Accompanied by typescript note (based on lost handwritten original), caption cards, and original caption labels (affixed to green paper). Descriptive information from the included typescript note states: "No. 2. $300. Found at Jokha. A record of the receipt of provisions for the temple service. Dated 2350 B.C. No. 3. $5.00. Found at Jokha. A bill of sale of 1 large lean kid goat and one lamb belonging to En-Ishtar, and delivered on the 12th day of the month. Dated about 2350 B.C. No. 4. $4.00. Found at Drehem, a suburb of Nippur, where there was a receiving station for the temple of Bel. A butcher's bill for 1 goat killed for market, and delivered on the 17th day of the month. Dated about 2300 B.C. No. 5. $5.00. Found at Jokha. A typical record of the temple offerings. After the tablet was written, and while the clay was still soft, the temple scribe rolled over the entire tablet his cylindrical stone seal and the seal impression made is impossible to change the record. The seal impression bears in raised characters the name of the scribe and of his father, the seated figure of a deity and the standing figure of a priest. It is dated about 2350 B.C."

The typescript note states "I guarantee the eight tablets [sic] described above to be the genuine ancient Babylonian originals. [signed] Edgar J. Banks."

Accompanying material also contains descriptions for additional tablets that are not owned by the Library. No information regarding the previous or current ownership of the other tablets is provided.