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OLD BABYLONIAN CUNEIFORM TABLET
CIRCA 1950-1600 B.C.
2 5/8 in. (103 grams, 66 mm).
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]
PROVENANCE:
From 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.
LITERATURE:
Cf. cuneiform text from Babylon now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, under accession no.86.11.282.