A Previously Unidentified Old Babylonian Loan Document from Kisurra in the British Museum

The tablet edited here was catalogued in CBT 3 as an Ur III document from Ĝirsu/Lagaš recording a “transfer of debt”. I had the opportunity to study and copy BM 24336 during a research stay at the British Museum, London, in March 2016, while working on unpublished Neo-Sumerian loan contracts. The tablet, whose state of preservation is quite good, is written in early Old Babylonian script. It was acquired in 1898 from William T. Burbush together with other 1328 objects, mostly cuneiform tablets, bearing the museum numbers BM 23619-24946. Thirty-five Kisurra texts from the same range of catalogue numbers have been published in SANTAG 9 by Anne Goddeeris (2009), who pointed out that more tablets belonging to the same corpus likely remain unidentified in the British Museum collections.