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LOT 1300
Old Babylonian Cuneiform Tablet of a Contract
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 1/4 in. (58 grams, 58 mm).
Pillow-shaped with cuneiform text to both broad faces and one long edge; part of one face absent. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From specialised collection of cuneiform texts, formed in the 1950s-1990s.
The property of a London gentleman and housed in London, 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 1990s.
The collection is exceptional for the variety of types, including some very rare and well preserved examples.
Literature
Cf. cuneiform text from Babylon now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, under accession no.86.11.282.
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