Tell Sifr

[1] "Two effluents took off from the left bank of the Iturungal, the Id-Ninaki-gen-a, which over Bzeikh (Zabalam) flowed to Telloh (Girsu), al Hibba (Uru-ku, Lagas?

The tablets, 100 in total with most complete, were found in a brick structure, protected by reed matting.

); hammers, chisels, adzes, and hatchets; a large assortment of knives and daggers of various sizes and shapes—all unfinished; massive and smaller rings; a pair of prisoner's fetters ; three links of a strong chain; a ring weight; several plates resembling horses' shoes, divided at the heel for the insertion of a handle, and having; two holes in each for pins; other plates of a different shape, which were probably primitive hatchets; an ingot of copper, and a great weight of dross from the same smelted metal.

There was likewise a small fragment of a bitumen bowl overlaid with thin copper; and a piece of lead.

"[3]The copper assemblage, which had also been wrapped in reed matting, and the tablets are now held at the British Museum.

"[13][14] Larsa king Silli-Adad (c. 1771–1770 BC) referred to himself as the governor of Kutalla in a brick inscription found at Ur "... provider of Nippur, governor of Ur, Larsa, Lagas, and the land (ma-da) of Kutalla ...".

Sin-ishme’anni of Kutalla the orchard keeper of the Dilmun date-palms, has informed me as follows: “Shamash-hazir expropriated from me a field of my paternal estate and gave it to a soldier.” ..."[17]In the time of Samsu-iluna (c. 1749–1712 BC), ruler of Babylon, it is known that one Ili-ippalsam served as a rabiãnum (mayor) in Kutalla.

Copper alloy tools Tell Sifr BM
Contract for a loan of silver - Tell Sifr BM 33257