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LOT 1142
Sumerian Terracotta Cuneiform Tablet Section
UR III, 22ND-21ST CENTURY B.C.
1 5/8 in. (27.8 grams, 43 mm).
Biconvex in section with rounded edges, columns of neatly impressed cuneiform text to both flat faces; old collector's label '32' to broken end. [No Reserve]
Provenance
London, UK, art market, 1980s, with collection label with no.32.
From the collection of G.M.R.H., London, UK.
Examined and translated by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but the document now lost.
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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