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LOT 1496
Western Asiatic Fragmentary Cuneiform Barrel with Coin Group
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
1/8 - 2 1/4 in. (145 grams total including box, 1-56 mm).
Comprising: a fusiform ceramic bead with impressed cuneiform text in four columns; group of twenty-seven bronze coins and fragments; in old cardboard soap box with handwritten legend inside lid 'Bought from an old beggar Arab at Murood, in desert'; wrapped in fragments of old English-language newspaper dated March 31, 1928. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEarly 20th century private collection, acquired March 1925.
Subsequently Simon Chorley Art & Antiques Ltd, Gloucestershire, 23rd September 2010.
Private collection, acquired from the above.
In a box marked 'Found by ourselves in Desert at Murmood (?) March 1925'.
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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LOT 1496
Western Asiatic Fragmentary Cuneiform Barrel with Coin Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
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Western Asiatic Gold and Carnelian Bead Necklace
1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £468
Comprising a graduated group of tabular carnelian beads with interstitial collars of gold granulation and some moulded glass hexagonal tabular-shaped beads; centrepiece a biconvex oval with speckled surface; restrung. 56.8 grams, 42.5 cm long
Ex property of the late Mr S.M., London, UK, 1970-1990s, thence by descent. Accompanied by a previous cataloguing card. 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. -
Ancient Stone Bead Necklace String
1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £72
Restrung group of graduated tubular, annular, fusiform and other beads in stone, shell, and ceramic beads. 20 grams, 50 cm
UK gallery, early 2000s. 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.
Similar beads were found in the excavations of the royal tombs of Nimrud. Thousands of beads were discovered in the sarcophagi (for example those of Nimrud’s Queens) probably originally composed as wide collars with multiple strands. -
Fragmentary Sumerian Jar with Decoration
2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Fragments of a coarse ceramic jar with vertical and horizontal incised bands, some with hatched detailing. 705 grams total, 0.1-10.9 cm
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. 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.
