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LOT 1133
Old Babylonian Cuneiform Tablet
CIRCA 1950-1600 B.C.
2 5/8 in. (103 grams, 66 mm).
Pillow-shaped with impressed cuneiform text to both broad faces and one long edge; repaired. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1992.
Thence by descent to family members and dispersed in 1988 in London and Geneva.
Cf. cuneiform text from Babylon now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, under accession no.86.11.282.
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