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LOT 0240
Old Babylonian Cuneiform Tablet with Royal Sumerian Text
CIRCA 18TH CENTURY B.C.
3 1/2 in. (146 grams, 90 mm).
Pillow-shaped in form with cuneiform text in dense rows to one face.
ProvenanceSpecialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1992.
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.
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LOT 0240
Old Babylonian Cuneiform Tablet with Royal Sumerian Text
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,560
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Western Asiatic Stone and Other Bead Necklace
Circa 1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £26
Restrung, composed of white circular beads of stone, shell, and glass, including biconical, irregular and other types. 19.4 grams, 48 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Similar beads were found in the excavations of the Royal tombs of Nimrud. Thousands of beads were discovered in the sarcophagi (for example those of Nimrud’s Queens) probably originally composed as wide collars with multiple strands. -
Sumerian Terracotta Cuneiform Tablet
3000-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,200
Rectangular slab with reserved symbols in three columns to one face, reverse plain. 314 grams, 11.9 cm
Ex Oriental Dar Antiques, Jerusalem, 1967. European private collection. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.12094-211937. -
Western Asiatic Pottery Bowl with Two Idols
Circa 2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £845
Hemispherical bowl with two pinched lamps to the rim, inner face with two facing ladders, central rectangular recess with two integral bird figures, two anthropoid females placed against the sidewall; outer face with carinated rim and circumferential bands. 1.38 kg, 22 cm wide
Collected by the previous vendor's father in the early 1970s. Acquired from Bonhams, London, 13 April 2011, no.353. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. Accompanied by copies of the relevant Bonhams catalogue pages and the original Bonhams lot tag.
