==The Blau Monuments==

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//Artifact//: Stone\\ 
//Provenience//: Unknown\\
//Period//: ED I-II (ca. 2900-2700 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: [[http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/t/the_blau_monuments.aspx|British Museum, London]] (BM 086260 and BM 086261)\\ 
//Text genre, language//: Administrative text; Sumerian\\ 
[[http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/cdlisearch/search/index.php?SearchMode=Text&ResultCount=1000&txtContent=&requestFrm=Search&txtExcavation_Number=Blau|CDLI page]]\\ 

//Description//: These two small stone objects most probably witness early transactions of land in exchange for goods. These and other similar documents on stone were compared to the so-called //Kudurru//s known, in particular, from the second half of the 2nd millennium. 

//Edition//: Gelb, I.J., P. Steinkeller and R.M. Whiting Jr., //Earliest Land Tenure Systems in the Near East: Ancient Kudurrus, Text//. Oriental Institute Publications 104 (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: Chicago/IL), nos. 10 and 11.

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