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LOT 1503
Western Asiatic Faience Cylinder Seal with Fish
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
3/4 in. (2.3 grams, 20 mm).
Cylindrical with three pairs of fish and stylised animal heads(?) above; supplied with a museum-quality impression. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a late Warwickshire numismatic collector, his collection formed from the early 1980s.
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Sumerian Stone Rabbit Amulet
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From the London collection of the late Mr S.M., 1969-1999. -
Large Western Asiatic Pottery Jar
Circa 3000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
Comprising a broad body with slightly flared rim and rounded body tapering to a narrow base; painted multilinear band below the rim with scoops above; repaired. 5 kg, 33.5 cm
with Mahboubian Gallery, London, UK, 1974. Private collection, London, UK. -
Large Proto-Sumerian Terracotta Cuneiform Tablet
4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,200
Pillow-shaped with incised grid to the broad faces, dense cuneiform text in the columns with impressed pellet numerals. 236 grams, 89 mm
Private collection, acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s; thence by descent. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13179-249318.
Various collections of cuneiform tablets form a corpus of texts mainly of an administrative nature, from the Uruk III and Ur III periods. The proto-cuneiform, as a system of proto-writing, emerged in Mesopotamia ca.3500-3200 BC, during the Uruk period.
