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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.
ProvenanceEx 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.
Cf. similar item in the British Museum, London, under accession no.2010,6022.11, for type.
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Opening Bid: £125
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Western Asiatic Gold Ring with Boar Gemstone
14th century A.D. and earlierSold for (Inc. bp): £1,690
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Private collection, USA, acquired in the 1990s. Accompanied by a copy of a previous cataloguing information page.
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Neo-Babylonian Black Stone Stamp Seal
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
With intaglio depiction of an advancing lamassu winged lion with crowned human head above, inverted crescent in the field; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 11.4 grams, 25 mm
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