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LOT 0227
Sumerian Cuneiform Tablet Group with Legal Texts
LATE 3RD-EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 3/4 - 2 in. (90 grams total, 45-51 mm).
Comprising two pillow-shaped clay tablets comprising: one in dark brown material, cuneiform text to both broad faces and one edge, polished surface, end of the third millennium but with an Akkadian administrative text; one in tan-coloured material, cuneiform text to both broad faces and three edges, a legal text from the beginning of the second millennium. [2]
Provenance
Acquired in the 1970s.
European private collection.
Literature
Cf. similar item in the British Museum, London, under accession number 1989,0130.4/ BM No.140855 and published in MacGregor, N., A History of the World in 100 Objects, London, 2010 (cat.no.15, pp.90-94).
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