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LOT 0246

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GBP (£) 600 - 800
EUR (€) 720 - 960
USD ($) 740 - 990

Current bid: £420 (+bp*)
(3 Bids, Reserve met)

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(3 Bids, Reserve met)   |   Current bid: £420
NEO BABYLONIAN TERRACOTTA CUNEIFORM TABLET
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]

PROVENANCE:
Acquired 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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