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LOT 1098
Western Asiatic Multi-Coloured Glass Bead String
1ST MILLENNIUM A.D.
8 5/8 in. (9.15 grams, 22 cm).
Restrung group of tubular beads with applied yellow glass trails. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired in London, 1985.
Private collection, London.
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Western Asiatic Bronze Bracelet with Coils
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Comprising a round-section shank and with the tapered ends wound about the shank; partly absent. 36.5 grams, 74 mm
UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman. -
Western Asiatic Stone Jeweller's Mould Group
1st millennium A.D.Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £125
Comprising: bifacial soapstone block fragment with incised roundel of a nimbate head with pouring channel, vent and locating hole, reverse similar with roundel of two opposed figures with fronds between, both faces with portions of other designs; larger rectangular block with pouting channel vent and two locating holes, roundel with rosette design. 59 grams total, 29-44 mm
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Mesopotamian Terracotta Cuneiform School Exercise Tablet
Circa 1950-1700 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Discoid in plan and lentoid in section, bearing cuneiform scribal work in large characters on both sides. 153 grams, 81 mm
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 'practise 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 latter.
