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LOT 0226
Late Old Babylonian or Kassite Clay Cuneiform Tablet
MID 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 in. (52 grams, 50 mm).
With text to one remaining face; lentoid in cross-section.
ProvenanceSpecialised 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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