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LOT 0233
Mesopotamian Bone Deer Terminal
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 5/8 in. (8.04 grams, 41 mm).
Carved with a narrow socket to the rear of the neck, the ears and spiral horns flat along the crest of the spine; eyes drilled to accept inserts in contrasting colour.
ProvenanceFrom the collection of Mr S.M., London, UK, formed from 1979-1999.
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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.
