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LOT 0170
Old Babylonian Pictographic Tablet
2600-2400 B.C.
2 in. (47 grams, 50 mm).
A roughly pillow-shaped clay tablet bearing pictographs to one face.
Provenance
Acquired early 1990s.
Ex private American collection; thence by descent.
Private Swiss collection since 1998.
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