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LOT 1015
Large Amlash Spouted Vessel
CIRCA 13TH-12TH CENTURY B.C.
12 5/8 in. (2.3 kg, 32 cm high).
A large spouted vessel with carinated body, trumpet-style neck and rim, curved round-section spout, strap handle with thumb-pad and circumferential bands and waves to the neck. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1970-2015.
From the collection of a deceased Japanese gentleman.
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Western Asiatic Zoomorphic Terracotta Rhyton
3rd-1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £1,000 - 1,400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £400
A terracotta rhyton vessel with a flaring neck and zoomorphic spout, possibly a horse's head with circular spout in its chest. 668 grams, 18 cm high
with a London, UK gallery 1971-early 2000s. Accompanied by an original thermoluminescence analysis report no.281z11 from Oxford Authentication, 16 June 1981. -
Neo-Babylonian Cuneiform Administrative Tablet from the Reign of Artaxerxes I, Achaemenid King of Persia
465-424 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £910
A pillow-shaped administrative clay tablet bearing cuneiform text to both principal faces, relating to a barley debt; Aramaic graffiti to one edge. 114 grams, 67 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.
The tablet records a promissory note of a typical kind to pay for barley. It concludes with the names of witnesses, town and date. The Aramaic script transcribes the cuneiform name of the debtor into Aramaic script, making it easier for scribes to identify who each tablet refers to. It dates to the Achaemenid period, to the reign of Artaxerxes I (465-424 B.C.). Such late administrative tablets are typically carelessly written, as is apparent on our example as some script has been rendered slanting sharply downwards. -
Western Asiatic Silver Lion Terminal Head
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £80
A silver terminal formed as the upper part of a lion's head with stylised facial detailing, rectangular lug above, simple decorative detailing to the reverse. 18.6 grams, 24 mm
Acquired before the early 1970s. Ex London, UK, gallery. Property of a London gentleman.
