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LOT 0241

Proto-Sumerian Pictographic Terracotta Tablet

URUK III, CIRCA 3200-3000 B.C.

3 1/4 in. (73.3 grams, 81 mm).

Lentoid in section with incised and impressed design to one face; trapezoidal figure with bowl(?) and incised cross, two rows of impressed D-shapes; probably a tally token.

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 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.

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LOT 0241

Proto-Sumerian Pictographic Terracotta Tablet

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300

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