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LOT 0988
Western Asiatic Mixed Bead Group
CIRCA 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
1/8 - 1/2 in. (122 grams total, 2-12 mm).
A mixed group of mainly drawn opaque coloured glass beads.
ProvenanceAcquired 1970-2010.
Collection of a late Japanese gentleman.
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Western Asiatic Kohl Pot with Inscription
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £400
A serpentine or chlorite kohl pot of broadly cylindrical form with a gently tapering sidewall, rolled rim, slightly convex base and later incised panel of earlier cuneiform text. 35.7 grams, 36 mm high
French collection, 1960s-early 2000s. From an important Paris gallery, France. -
Ur III Cuneiform Tablet Fragment, a Note on a Quantity of Barley
2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
A clay tablet bearing cuneiform text to one face, roughly lentoid in cross-section, a note on a quantity of barley, possibly Paleo-Babylonian. 23 grams, 39 mm
Acquired in the 1980s. From the collection of a West London, UK, gentleman. -
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Aramaic Lead Amuletic Sheet with Magical Text
1st-3rd century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
A roughly rectangular sheet-lead panel with columns of lightly incised Aramaic text of magical subject matter; the sheet originally rolled tightly. 4.34 grams, 41 mm
Acquired 1969-1999. London collection of the late Mr S.M., thence by descent.
The sheet was possibly meant to be a defixio or curse tablet on which the malediction was recorded and then shut away (by being tightly rolled up), so that the victim could not find or negate it.
