Cuneiform Tablet: Old Assyrian Account Text

Rectangular clay tablet with cuneiform writing. The tablet is inscribed on both sides with ruled lines of text written in the Old Assyrian dialect of the Akkadian language. There are no seal impressions. The tablet probably comes from the trading colony (karum) by the mound of Kültepe (ancient Kanesh) near Kaiseri in Cappadocia (central Anatolia). The surface of the tablet is very worn and much of the second half of the text, written on the edges of the tablet, is illegible. What is preserved records a debt (line 2: hubullum) of 2 1/2 minas and 8 1/2 shekels of silver, owed by Ikupi-Ishtar and states that the time for its repayment is up.