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A particular object, not a kind: every page here starts from a collection record, quotes its dating as worded, and separates what the record says from what can be inferred from it.

A kind of find describes a group: pottery, inscriptions, coins. An object is one item with a record number, a holder and a date as published by its source. Object pages keep three things apart: what you see, what the record says, and where the object is now. A field the source did not give stays empty.

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Cuneiform tablet and case: quittance for a loan in silver

A small clay tablet and its sealed case, "probably from Kültepe (Karum Kanesh)", of the 20th-19th century BCE. The tablet records the discharge of a debt for a silver loan owed to Ashur-taklaku, and the case bears impressions of four different seals.

ca. 20th-19th century BCE

Text frame in place of a photograph

ClayTablet: 4.6 × 4.7 × 1.5 cm (1 13/16 × 1 7/8 × 9/16 in.); case: 5.2 × 5.4 × 2.5 cm (2 1/16 × 2 1/8 × 1 in.)

The source has an openly licensed image; it is not included here yet

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Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag

A silver drinking vessel with gold inlay, ending in the forepart of a stag, which the museum dates ca. 14th-13th century BCE and assigns to the Hittite Empire. Its rim frieze shows a religious ceremony; its findspot is not recorded.

ca. 14th-13th century BCE

Text frame in place of a photograph

Silver, gold inlay7 1/16 × 5 5/16 × 7 1/16 in., 0.7 lb. (18 × 13.5 × 18 cm, 0.3 kg)

The source has an openly licensed image; it is not included here yet

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Bronze coin of Cyzicus

A Roman civic coin from Asia Minor: a bust of Alexander Severus on one side, a table with imperial busts and sacrificial implements on the other. The coin that accompanies the article on coins and hoards as a comparison, not as a coin from the hoard.

222-235 CE

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