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LOT 0240

Proto-Sumerian Pictographic Terracotta Tablet

URUK III, CIRCA 3200-3000 B.C.

2 1/8 in. (26.2 grams, 55 mm).

Lentoid in section with design to one face in three registers: left, large panel with impressed grid, square and spray; right, two smaller panels with hatching and geometric forms.

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.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12543-231889.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. Salvatore Monaco, Archaic Cuneiform Tablets from Private Collections, CUSAS 31, for other comparable tablets.

CONDITION
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LOT 0240

Proto-Sumerian Pictographic Terracotta Tablet

Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,120

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