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LOT 1244
Mesopotamian Terracotta Cuneiform School Exercise Tablet
CIRCA 1950-1700 B.C.
4 in. (250 grams, 10.3 cm).
Discoid in plan and lentoid in section, bearing cuneiform scribal work in large characters on one side. [No Reserve]
Provenance
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.
Footnotes
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.
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LOT 1244
Mesopotamian Terracotta Cuneiform School Exercise Tablet
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
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