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LOT 0208
Old Babylonian Administrative Terracotta Tablet Noting a Fall from the City Wall of Isin
19TH-16TH CENTURY B.C.
2 7/8 in. (124 grams, 72 mm).
Pillow-shaped with band of impressed cuneiform text to upper edge and partial band to the middle.
Provenance
Specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1988.
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.
The 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.
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LOT 0208
Old Babylonian Administrative Terracotta Tablet Noting a Fall from the City Wall of Isin
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170
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