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LOT 0847
Western Asiatic Bronze Multi-Spouted Oil Lamp
CIRCA 10TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
5 in. (257 grams, 12.6 cm).
With hollow-formed bulbous body, three radiating nozzles each with a leaf-shaped lip, central filler-hole with hinge for a lid (absent), ellipsoid rod handle to the rear with bird-shaped thumb-pad; band of low-relief pseudo-text to the discus. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx old English collection.
London art market, pre 2000.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 0847
Western Asiatic Bronze Multi-Spouted Oil Lamp
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
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Western Asiatic Pink Jasper Cylinder Seal
Circa 3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Cotton-reel type with regular pattern of larger and smaller drilled pellets. 8.96 grams, 16 mm
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector; collection no.19. London collection, 2016. -
Western Asiatic Turquoise Blue Glass Bead Necklace String
1st millennium A.D. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £46
Restrung using mainly small drawn glass beads. 4.2 grams, 44 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s. -
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Old Babylonian Cuneiform Tablet
Sumerian, 3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300
Of pillow-shape with lines of impressed cuneiform text to both principal faces, reading: 1) 1 wineskin suspended from a rope, 2) (for) Šu-Sîn the royal messenger 3-5) when he came <...>. 6) Intermediary Ašgi-tillassu, chief of the weavers. 7) Expense. 8) In the month šugargal, 9-10) the year bis when the priestess of Eridu was 'hired'. 24.2 grams, 36 mm
Specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1988. Thence by descent to family members. Examined 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. The collection is exceptional for the variety of types, including some very rare and well preserved examples.
