Fragment of Cuneiform Tablet: Old Assyrian Text

Fragment of clay tablet with cuneiform writing. The tablet is inscribed with faintly ruled lines of text written in the Old Assyrian dialect of the Akkadian language. This fragment represents only the upper most part of the tablet with just a few lines partially preserved on obverse and reverse surfaces. The tablet probably comes from the trading colony (karum) by the mound of Kültepe (ancient Kanesh) near Kaiseri in Cappadocia (central Anatolia). Most of the text is broken and the contents are uncertain, but it does mention the name Aduda (obv. line 1) and refined [silver?] (obv. line 2) and may refer to a debt or transport of silver. IMAGE: Top row, first on right.