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The article talks about the cuneiform tablet that was found in Uruk during the 18th campaign of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft in 1959-1960. It is believed that it was one of the set of clay tablets that was recovered from a paved area in front of the gate in the southeastern wall. They thought that it might probably left there by grave robbers.

The article talks about the cuneiform tablets at the Bristol Public Library in Bristol, Connecticut. These tablets were bought in 1921 from a man named Edgar J. Banks who was an antiquities dealer. The tablets were brought for conservation and translation in 2002 to the Yale Babylonian Collection. Eight of the tablets were shown in this article comprise six administrative documents from the third dynasty of Ur.

The article presents the clay tablet which contained a treaty from Assyria during the ancient times. The treaty was between the Assyrians and Anatolians. This also showed the content of the treaty as well as photographs of the clay tablets. A translation of the content was provided together with the comments of the author.

The article talks about the prism containing an Old Babylonian forerunner of the lexical series HAR-ra=hubullu XX-XXII that matches to the fifth tablet of the series in the Old Babylonian scribal tradition. This also discusses the content of the tablet and provides a description of the prism. The content includes geographic entries and unattested entries in the lexical tradition.

The article presents a photograph of a clay tablet from the third dynasty of Ur that is currently located at the Tehran Museum in Iran. The content that was discussed include the summary of various disbursement made during the calendar year of that era, a summary of smaller accounts, and calculations of monthly expenditures.

The article presents the findings of the author's search for the other cuneiform fragments from Boğazköy in the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The cuneiform fragments sought by the author were among the fourteen cuneiform tablets which belong to the N. P. Likhačev collection. Illustrations of the three of these fragments are presented.