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LOT 0877
Amlash Figure of Fertility
CIRCA 13TH-12TH CENTURY B.C.
3 5/8 in. (4 in.) (47 grams, 91 mm (78 grams total, 10 cm including stand)).
A copper-alloy fertility figure with openwork decoration, loop arms suspending pendants formed as slender figurative horned animals; suspension loop to reverse and cage-style torso; accompanied by a custom-made display stand.
ProvenanceAcquired before 1983.mj
Ex London gallery, 1990s.
See The Virtual Museum of Iran Art, 'bronze openwork statue of a fertility Idol, ca 1000 BC', for a comparable figure.
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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.
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Ur III Cuneiform Tablet Fragment Group Including an Expense for a Sacrifice
Late 3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
A pair of ceramic tablet fragments, fragment A: a text of accounting of Ur III (mention of an expense for a sacrifice), fragment B: uncertain. 15.6 grams total, 29-31 mm
Acquired before 1988. Ex family collection. -
Western Asiatic Necklace String
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
A group of black and white jasper cylindrical beads with irregular quartz discs and a large oval-shaped white jasper bead with double collar at either end, restrung on a string. 36.86 grams, 24 cm
Fine condition.
Acquired before 1990. Central London gallery. Private collection of a North West London lady.
