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LOT 0268
Proto-Sumerian Pictographic Tablet
URUK III, CIRCA 3200-3000 B.C.
4 in. (4 3/8 in.) (155 grams, 10.3 cm (251 grams total, 11.2 cm high including stand)).
Tongue-shaped plaque, lentoid in section with segmented layout to each face, impressed pellets and geometric figures; supplied with a display stand.
Provenance
From an important collection formed before 1988.
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.
Ex J.L. collection.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12418-226307.
Literature
Cf. Salvatore Monaco, Archaic Cuneiform Tablets from Private Collections,CUSAS 31, no.143 (CDLI P464182) for type.
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