23 cows and 5 bulls – this promissory note was especially a lot of value. To be able to all of the Text on the document read, had to Aschur-nasir to turn the round tablets out of clay in the Hand. Under the lush amount of the Name of a shepherd. This had received the animals, “the willows”, a kind of loan. The words revealed in cuneiform. And he, Aschur-nasir, was the lender – in its function as a place holder. If he wanted to reliably assume that the hütende debtor would return to the 28 Cattle at some point, then he had to ensure that the clay remained safe.
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