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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Con·tract tablet. Babylonian & Assyrian Antiq. A clay tablet on which was inscribed a contract, for safe keeping.  Such tablets were inclosed in an outer case (often called the envelope), on which was inscribed a duplicate of the inscription on the inclosed tablet.