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LOT 1139

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Current bid: £15 (+bp*)
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(2 Bids, Reserve met)   |   Current bid: £15
MESOPOTAMIAN CUNEIFORM TABLET FRAGMENT
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 3/4 in. (40.4 grams, 70 mm).

Fragment with neatly impressed dense cuneiform text to both faces; repaired. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
From specialised collection of cuneiform texts, formed in the 1950s-1990s.
The property of a London gentleman and housed in London, 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 1990s.
The collection is exceptional for the variety of types, including some very rare and well preserved examples.)

LITERATURE:
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 11.217.15, for similar.

CONDITION