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LOT 0246
Neo Babylonian Terracotta Cuneiform Tablet for irbu-income
CIRCA 600 B.C.
1 3/4 in. (2 1/2 x 2 in.) (24.9 grams, 45 mm (68 grams total, 66 x 50 mm including box)).
Pillow-shaped tablet with cuneiform text identified as 'irbu-income of dates from five people, with additional accounting on reverse, dating to year twenty of an unnamed king'; in glass-topped wooden display box. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired in a Dorset/Somerset saleroom in the late 1950s.
From the private collection of Colonel E.J. Martin (1911-1981) Indian Army and Artillery Regiment; collected since before 1954, and still with its original box with old information label. Identified by Colonel Martin's friend, the 'Keeper of Antiquities' at the British Museum.
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.
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LOT 0246
Neo Babylonian Terracotta Cuneiform Tablet for irbu-income
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,470
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