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LOT 0278
Akkadian Lapis Lazuli Master of Animals Type Cylinder Seal
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
3/4 in. (4.19 grams, 18 mm).
With incuse design including an advancing human figure and two rampant stags; old collector's tag.
ProvenanceEx 'S' collection, London, UK.
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.
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LOT 0278
Akkadian Lapis Lazuli Master of Animals Type Cylinder Seal
Estimate £600 - 800€700 - 930 (for guidance only)$810 - 1,080 (for guidance only)
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Opening Bid: £83
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Western Asiatic Gold Ring with Ornament and Pearl
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Square-section hoop with carination to the plaque, granulated collar and pearl bead. 3.88 grams, 27.36 mm overall, 15.41 mm internal diameter (approximate size British I 1/2, USA 4 1/2, Europe 8.07, Japan 7)
Ex property of a late Japanese collector, 1970-2000s. -
Mesopotamian Terracotta Cuneiform School Exercise Tablet
Circa 1950-1700 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Discoid in plan and lentoid in section, bearing cuneiform scribal work in large characters on both sides. 153 grams, 81 mm
From a specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1992. Thence by descent to family members and dispersed in 1988 in London and Geneva.
Such scribal 'practise tablets' are always of this round shape: Type IV tablets, also known as 'lentils', are circular tablets containing one or a few lines of a composition written out once by the teacher and then a second time by the student, either underneath (typical of Nippur tablets), or on the reverse. This would appear to be an example of the latter.
