Proto-Sumerian Terracotta Pictographic Tablet

URUK III, CIRCA 3200-3000 B.C.

5 in. (383 grams, 12.5 cm).

Pillow-shaped tablet with impressed segmentation to both broad faces, incised pictographs and groups of impressed roundels, hatched blocks and other notations; repaired.

Provenance

From an important collection of a London gentleman, 1980-2000s.

Literature

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

CONDITION

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LOT 0267