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LOT 0247
Hittite Terracotta Fertility Idol
CIRCA 12TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.
6 3/4 in. (141 grams, 17.2 cm).
D-shaped in section with applied headdress, rosette earrings, collar, breasts, footwear.
ProvenanceEx London, UK, gallery, 1971-early 2000s.
London, UK, collection.
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Proto-Sumerian Terracotta Pictographic Tablet
Uruk III, circa 3200-3000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170
Pillow-shaped tablet with impressed segmentation to both broad faces, incised pictographs and groups of impressed roundels, hatched blocks and other notations; repaired. 383 grams, 12.5 cm
From an important collection of a London gentleman, 1980-2000s. -
Mesopotamian Terracotta Cuneiform School Exercise Tablet
Circa 1950-1700 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Discoid in plan and lentoid in section, bearing cuneiform scribal work in large characters on one side. 250 grams, 10.3 cm
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 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 former. -
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Bactrian Banded Agate Elbow Bead
2nd millennium B.C. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £78
Pierced longitudinally to the straight edge. 18.3 grams, 55 mm
with a London, UK gallery, 1971-early 2000s.
