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LOT 0229
Proto-Sumerian Terracotta Tablet with Archaic Text
3300-3000 B.C.
4 1/2 in. (230 grams, 11.4 cm).
Lentoid-section slab with incised grid to each face: one with three columns, impressed roundels and crescents, grid and other symbols; the other face with four columns, each cell filled with marks and symbols.
Provenance
Ex Oriental Dar Antiques, Jerusalem, 1967.
European private collection.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.12095-211940.
Literature
Cf. similar item in the British Museum, London, under accession no.2010,6022.11, for type.
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