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Description: Cuneiform tablet, inventory of barley deposit, Third dynasty of Ur, reign of Shulgi (2047 BC in the middle chronology). From Ur. Mentions a barley deposit in the granary of the "village of Meluhha", viewed to be related to the country called Meluhha in the cuneiform tablets, probably the Indus valley of the Harappan civilisation. BM 17751. Réf : Simo Parpola, Asko Parpola and Robert H. Brunswig, Jr., "The Meluḫḫa Village: Evidence of Acculturation of Harappan Traders in Late Third Millennium Mesopotamia?", in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Vol. 20, No. 2, 1977, p. 136-137.
Title: Meluhha village tablet - BM17751
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