Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for silver, archive of Iddin-Nabu and Shellebi

c. 562 BC · Babylon

Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for silver, archive of Iddin-Nabu and Shellebi, from Babylonia, dated c. 562 BC. It was found at Babylon. Today it is kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Date

c. 562 BC

Civilization

Babylon

Found at

Babylon

Where it is today

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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