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LOT 0264
Mesopotamian Decorated Alabaster Bowl
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 1/4 in. (503 grams, 13.2 cm wide).
With flat rim and four projecting lugs; band of incised concentric rings to the rim and shoulder; curving sidewall to a narrow flat base.
ProvenancePrivate collection, USA and Switzerland, acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s; by descent to the current owner.
FootnotesVessels of this typology were used mainly as mortars for crushing legumes, cereals, fruit, spices, the bare minimum needed for preparing daily food, but also for pharmaceutical products and for painting, for mixing colours and ointments.
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LOT 0264
Mesopotamian Decorated Alabaster Bowl
Estimate £800 - 1,000€930 - 1,160 (for guidance only)$1,080 - 1,350 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£444 (EUR 516; USD 600) ‡+BP*
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Western Asiatic Glass Stamp Seal Collection
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Conical types with bird in flight, advancing ibex and other motifs; each supplied with a museum-quality impression. 11.5 grams total, 13-18 mm
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s. -
Large Western Asiatic Decorated Terracotta Handled Jar
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £75
Bulbous in profile with deep everted rim; and small loop handle underside with pinched raid 'seam' running the full length from the underside of the handle to the opposed seam, with two similar seams parallel for half this distance and a similar perpendicular seam. 1.22 kg, 24 cm wide
Ex North West London specialist collection of pottery, 1990s. -
Large Old Babylonian Terracotta Cuneiform Tablet, a Legal Document in Envelope
Circa 2000-1700 B.C.Estimate: £1,000 - 1,400 (+bp*)
Bids: 3 | Current Bid: £900
Comprising a pillow-shaped tablet in fired clay with impressed cuneiform text to both faces; covered by a clay sleeve with further cuneiform notation; accompanied by an old handwritten slip: 'Envelope tablet: legal document. Old Babylonian c.2000-1700 B.C.' 437 grams, 12 cm
Private collection, 1980s. Acquired on the UK art market. Private collection, London, UK. Accompanied by an old handwritten note by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993.
