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LOT 1044
Western Asiatic Illuminated Quran Manuscript Page
18TH-19TH CENTURY A.D.
4 7/8 x 7 1/2 in. (2 grams, 12.5 x 19 cm).
Loose paper leaf with handwritten text in dense Naskh script, fifteen lines of dense black ink text to each side in a rectangular border with liquid gold fill, red diacritics and liquid gold rings as punctuation. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx M. Cummings collection, UK, 1990s.
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LOT 1044
Western Asiatic Illuminated Quran Manuscript Page
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
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Sassanian Black Stone Fragment with Hunting and Battle Scenes
5th-6th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Comprising: rectangular plaque and stepped finial; the plaque with beaded border and hatched inner band framing figural scenes in two registers; finial with horseman aiming his bow while galloping forwards, dead animals at his horse's hooves; underside segmented. 50.3 grams, 70 mm
Ex 'S' collection, London, UK. 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. -
Mesopotamian Terracotta Cuneiform School Exercise Tablet
Circa 1950-1700 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £715
Discoid in plan and lentoid in section, bearing cuneiform scribal work in large characters on one side; repaired. 269 grams, 10 cm
From a specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1992. Thence by descent to family members and dispersed in 1988 in London and Geneva.
Such scribal tablets are always of this round shape. Type IV tablets, also known as 'lentils', are circular tablets containing one or a few lines of a composition written out once by the teacher and then a second time by the student, either underneath (typical of Nippur tablets), or on the reverse. This would appear to be an example of the former. -
Western Asiatic Gold and Coral-Coloured Bead Pendant
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Comprising a tubular sheet-gold sleeve with repoussé domed upper and suspension loop, enclosing a conical fragment. 0.79 grams, 15 mm
Ex Japanese collection, 1970-2010. Accompanied by a previous cataloguing card.
