<p>As Arnaud explains (<a class="mention" data-mention="Arnaud 1996" data-user-id="1" href="/admin/biblio/details/?id=401&url=/admin/biblio/" data-bs-toggle="tooltip" data-bs-placement="top" title="Mariage et remariage des femmes chez les syriens du moyen-Euphrate, à l’âge du Bronze Récent d’après deux nouveaux documents">Arnaud 1996</a>, 8), the tablet was recovered during regular excavations by the French Mission at Meskéné (Tell Fagouz / Tell Faqous), though numerous clandestine digging pits at the site suggest further tablets may have been illicitly dug and reached the antiquities market. As the tablet could not be examined directly, the transliteration presented here is based solely on photographs, which permit a fairly reliable reading of the main text, though the witness list may require a collation.</p>