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LOT 0907
Urartu Vessel with Birds
CIRCA 7TH CENTURY B.C.
6 in. (334 grams, 15 cm wide).
A copper-alloy vessel with tapering walls and everted rim, two raised circumferential ribs framing a frieze of engraved stylised birds standing right beneath arcades.
ProvenanceAcquired before 1983.
Ex London gallery, 1990s.
See Moorey, P.R.S. et al., Ancient Bronzes, Ceramics and Seals, Los Angeles, 1981, for discussion and for broadly comparable vessels.
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Kingdom of Larsa Cuneiform Tablet Estimating a Quantity of Beer
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The majority of a pillow-shaped clay tablet, bearing cuneiform text to the upper part of one face and top edge, together with rulings(?) for additional text, a summary table relating to a distribution of consumables; Kingdom of Larsa, a note indicates in which unit of measurement the quantity of beer was estimated. 100 grams, 68 mm
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