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LOT 1223
Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tablet Fragment
EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 3/8 in. (89 grams, 61 mm).
Bifacial, pillow-shaped with cuneiform text to both faces; lower end partly absent. [No Reserve]
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.
This small collection is exceptional for the variety of types, including some very rare and well preserved examples.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 11.217.15, for similar.
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