Currently it is housed in the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures at the University of Chicago.
It is a petition to an unknown official describing the theft of some barley and asking that an investigation be carried out.
The description of the crime scene is quite detailed: ... they broke down a door that led into the public street and had been blocked up with bricks, probably using a log of wood as a battering-ram.
They then entered the house and contented themselves with taking what was stored there, 10 artabae of barley, which they carried off by the same way.
We guessed that this was removed piecemeal by the said door from the marks of a rope dragged along in that direction, and pointed out this fact to the chief of the police of that village and to the other officials.