Hittite tablet & Seal recreation of Ini-Teshub of Carchemish, the Hittite Viceroy of North Syria during the mid-thirteenth century BC (resin cast). The tablet records a lawsuit involving two merchants, one of whom demands payment of a debt. The text is written in Akkadian (Babylonian), the international language of the Late Bronze Age in the Middle East. In the center of a tablet is a bold impression of the king's stamp seal bearing the figure of a Hittite god holding a winged sphinx, with the king's name in both the cuneiform and Hittite hieroglyphic scripts. of Carchemish, the Hittite Viceroy of North Syria during the mid-thirteenth century BC. The tablet records a lawsuit involving two merchants, one of whom demands payment of a debt. The text is written in Akkadian (Babylonian), the international language of the Late Bronze Age in the Middle East. In the center of a tablet is a bold impression of the king's stamp seal bearing the figure of a Hittite god holding a winged sphinx, with the king's name in both the cuneiform and Hittite hieroglyphic scripts. The tablet is about 3 1/4 inches tall by 2 1/2 inches wide (resin cast). The stamp seal is 1 3/4 inches by 1 1/2 inches by 2 1/2 inches long (resin cast).
