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LOT 0927
Achaemenid Silver Ring with Warriors
7TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
1 in. (4.12 grams, 25.84 mm overall, 21.41 mm internal diameter (approximate size British V, USA 10 1/2, Europe 23.77, Japan 22)).
A silver finger ring with scaphoid bezel, incuse image of an armoured warrior with shield and spear, a horseman and a hatched gate or wall.
ProvenanceAcquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 25, for similar type.
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LOT 0927
Achaemenid Silver Ring with Warriors
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
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Old Babylonian Cuneiform Letter from King Illuni to Inzuršakšu King of Niqqum About Being Attacked by the Elamites
Circa 1730-1720 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,200
A rectangular bifacial clay tablet bearing cuneiform text to both principal faces and two side edges; a letter from Iluni, king of Ešnunna, to Inzuršakšu, king of Niqqum; Iluni answered to a letter from his ally who accused him of not having respected their agreements by not sending him an army as he had asked in a letter; he says he is attacked by the Elamites (neighbors of Niqqum), Iluni defends himself and considers that it is on the contrary Inzuršakšu who is in his wrong, he accuses him indeed not only of being the aggressor, but also of wanting to push him to enter in conflict with the Elamites, whom he was indeed himself a vassal, an incomplete draft of this letter was already known; excerpts: 'About the Elamite troop which rose against my country I had written to you to send me a reinforcement troop but you did not send me any troop. You have therefore violated your divine oath (...). This is what you have just written to me. It is you who have just violated your divine oath! Now you are willing to do bad things to this country and you want me to be angry with the Elamites. (...)' 179 grams, 94 mm wide
Specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1992. Thence by descent to family members. Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The collection is exceptional for the variety of types, including some very rare and well preserved examples.
A draft of this message was already known but the present one gives a more complete version. -
Western Asiatic Pottery Vessel Group
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
A group of eight ceramic vessels, mainly comprising jars of various forms, most painted with geometric motifs. 2.35 kg total, 9.5-15.5 cm wide
Acquired 1970-2010. Collection of a late Japanese gentleman. -
Luristan Decorated Pin Group
13th-6th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
A group of two bronze pins composed of tapering round-section stems: one with decoratively twisted head and bulbous finial, pierced; one with biconical and plain collars below a flanged head with conical finial. 89 grams total, 17.5-21.2 cm
UK private collection before 2000. UK art market. Property of a London gentleman.
